Moving Maildir folders

[Achim Gottinger]

Am 17.07.2016 um 02:36 schrieb Mark Foley:
> Not quite there yet. The folders show up, but I cannot see the mail inside the folders unless
> (in the Thunderbird client) I uncheck the setting "Show only subscribed folders". Still, the
> top-level folder is shown as grayed-out/italics as well as the the sub-folder INBOX. All other
> sub-folder at the same level as INBOX are not grayed-out, nor are folders subordinate to INBOX:
>
> user at mydom.org <-- topmost "real" account folder
>    +Inbox
>    Drafts
>    Templates
>    send Items
>    Junk E-mail
>    Deleted Items
>    +bpatterson   <-- added Maildir folders from former user, grayed-out, italics
>      +INBOX      <-- grayed out, italic
>        Payabled  <-- not grayed
>        Health Care  <-- not grayed
>        :
>        :
>      Sent           <-- not grayed
>      Sent Items     <-- not grayed
>      Templates      <-- not grayed
>      Trash          <-- not grayed
>
> Mozilla has a reference to this phenomenon http://kb.mozillazine.org/Grey_italic_folders, but
> this seems to have to do with GMAIL accounts. Mine is a local IMAP server and the link has no
> apparent remedy.
>
> Furthermore, if I attempt to delete e.g. "Trash" I get an error, presumably from Dovecot: "The
> current command did not succeed. The mail server for account user at mydom.org responded:
> [ALREADYEXISTS] Target mailbox already exists." Seem like an odd error when trying to delete.
>
> My theory is that if I can designated these folders as 'subcribed' everything would work
> normally. I don't know if that's true. I've tried added these folders to the 'subscriptions'
> file in the user's Maildir folder, an excerpt of which:
>
> INBOX.Directed Brokerage
> INBOX.Directed Brokerage.Abel Noser
> INBOX.Investments-Active.Kayne
> INBOX.Pending - Open Projects
> Deleted Items.Oath
> INBOX.Board Info.New Trustee-Oath of Office
> INBOX.Rule Filing-Rule Changes
> bpatterson.INBOX.2011 Investment Confirmation Responses
> bpatterson.INBOX.2011 and 2012 KCR Audit
> bpatterson.INBOX.2012 Investment Confirmation Responses
> bpatterson.INBOX.2013 Health Care Changes - Information
> bpatterson.INBOX.2013 Investment Confirmation Responses
>
> where the 1st 7 listed are part of the user's existing list and the next ones are what I added
> for the former user's mail folders. This did not work.
>
> Ideas?
>
> --Mark
Hi Mark,

Try to subscribe in thundebird via your accounts right click context menu.
The greyed out folders may not contain mails (missing .cur etc. 
suubfolders).
Sometimes it is neccessary to clean the ImapMail folder in the 
thunderbird user profile (as an last resort).

achim~