[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.13 and removing IMAP folders in thunderbird

[Morten P.D. Stevens]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:00:34 +0200, Christian Roessner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Dovecot-2.0.13 with mdbox and Thunderbird (IMAP). I have dozens 
> of
> imap folders and sometimes I wish to delete several folders:
>
> First Problem:
>
> If I remove a folder under TB, it get moved to my Trash folder. After
> that I close TB, which also purges the trash. When I come back, the
> deleted folder and its content is still there. There is no way to 
> remove
> it with TB. On the server side I see that the folder is listed under
> mailboxes/Trash and in the subscriptions file, a last line shows that
> Trash/foldername is subscribed. If I remove that line and the
> mailboxes-folder, then TB is happy again.

Hi Christian,

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Clients#Thunderbird

protocol imap {
   imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
}

That should also solve your second problem.

Best regards,

Morten