[Dovecot] RFE: Disallow DELETE of non-empty MBOX

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> It looks like this is already the rule for maildir, where one can't  
> remove the folder if any files or subdirectories are present.

Oh? I don't remember this kind of a feature..

> I'd like to get this option for mbox folders, as I'd like to prevent  
> "accidents" where users accidentally delete large folders by  
> clicking the wrong thing and then too-quickly approving the  
> confirmation dialog that pops up. (Impatient upper level management  
> tends to do this. ;))

The problem is that I think this should be more of a per-client  
setting rather than a global setting. For example with Thunderbird  
(well, and non-mboxes) deleting the mailbox just renames it under  
Trash. Disallowing that would be annoying. And I suppose this issue  
really should be handled by the client UI instead of the server..

Anyway, I guess it would be nice to have this, but I also really hate  
adding more settings to Dovecot right now.
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