On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:40:50PM +0200, André Wendt wrote:

Hi,

I am using Debian Sarge w/ dovecot-imapd package 0.99.14-1. Squirrelmail created three folders below INBOX, Drafts/Sent/Trash, that I already had elsewhere. Thus, I deleted them (through SqM).

However, both Thunderbird and Squirrelmail still show these folders anyway. When I select them, I keep getting "Mailbox does not exist" errors. I already tried to move all .imap.index* files in .INBOX/ out of the way -- dovecot created new ones but the folders still appear.

I am stuck. How can I prevent dovecot from advertising those non-existent folders? Is this an index-structure problem?

In general this is one of my pet hates about MUAs and IMAP servers, they insist on creating these folders in places that *they* decide.

It should be up to the user firstly *whether* they want Drafts and/or Trash and/or Sent and, even more to the point, it should be up to the user where these mailboxes are kept.

-- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)

"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."