Adam Williams spake the following on 7/11/2007 8:45 AM:

Using Seamonkey as my email client, and IMAP to check mail. If I create a new IMAP folder, and then delete it, I get the error:

The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Target mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes.

Tried a google search, didn't really come up with anything. I have rw permissions on /home/awilliam/Mail/* and delete the files fine using rm -rf /home/awilliam/Mail/whatever and editing the folder out of .subscriptions. Any ideas?

[root@roark ~]# dovecot --version 1.0.1 [root@roark ~]# dovecot -n # 1.0.1: /etc/dovecot.conf login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

Your MUA is trying to delete the mailbox by moving it to the trash folder. But if you are using mbox, you can't do that, because the trash folder is also mbox so it errors out. Thunderbird does the same thing if told to delete to the server side trash.

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