[Dovecot] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird?

[Knute Johnson]

Knute Johnson wrote:

I think I solved both questions.  With Thunderbird one needs to uncheck 
the "Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages" from 
the Advanced Account Settings dialog.  And I guess that answers my 
question about dovecot supporting sub-folders.

Thanks...

> I am running Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 on Windows XP.  When I try to delete 
> one of the folders I get a dialog with the following "The current 
> command did not succeed.  The mail server responded: Target mailbox 
> doesn't allow inferior mailboxes."  I am running dovecot version 
> 1.0.13-6.fc8 under Fedora 8.  The output of dovecot -n is below;
> 
> [root at www knute]# dovecot -n
> # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot.conf
> protocols: imaps pop3s
> disable_plaintext_auth: yes
> 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_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
> 
> Is there something to be configured to allow mail box deletion?  I know 
> there was a similar discussion this week about users deleting their 
> mailboxes accidentally.  Are folders within folders allowed by dovecot?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 

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Knute Johnson
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