[Dovecot] Sieve/autosubscribe subfolder

[LuKreme]

On 07 Mar 2014, at 04:12 , Moritz Augsburger <ml+dovecot at moritz.augsburger.name> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just ran across the annoying issue, that with
> 
> lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
> lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes
> 
> set, parent folders of newly created subfolders get subscribed without
> being existent.
> 
> Let me give an example:
> 
> In sieve I use
> 	fileinto "foo/bar";
> 
> but "foo/" does not exist as folder. So the Mailbox "foo/bar" gets
> created, but without "foo/" being a Mailbox. Nevertheless gets "foo/"
> subscribed, so that I have a non-existing mailbox in my subscription
> list, what confuses thunderbird.

Are you sure the problem is not ThunderBird?

> So, to solve this problem, I would propose
> - either the implicit creation of foo/ as mailbox or

Terrible idea.

> - not subscribing foo/

Yes, assuming that it is not TB screwing up.

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