Cannot delete IMAP Mail-Folder in Trash

[Jakobus Schürz]

I have the same Problem with thunderbird on Linux.

It looks like thunderbirds imap-implementation is a little bit broken. 
Even if thunderbird tried once to get a mailbox, it persists in the profile.

I have FS-Layout in dovecot. Thunderbird somtimes try to get a 
submailbox with INBOX/firstlevel^secondlevel^thirdlevel

Then it doesn't find this mailbox on the server (for sure, it's 
INBOX/firstlevel/secondlevel/thirdlevel) tb tries to get next

INBOX/firstlevel^^secondlevel^^thirdlevel

and then INBOX/firstlevel^^^^secondlevel^^^^thirdlevel and so on. And on 
each first login, tb tries to get all of them again and again...


Go to $TB-profilefolder/ImapMail/ and delete all of the *.msf files and 
search for the wrong mailboxes, described above... you will finde them.

And they are probably also in some config-files in the profile. 
user.prefs i think, and panacea.dat i could find them.

Delete all of the entries (be careful). Close and restart firefox. Good 
look, the phantom-folders are gone.


jakob


Am 06.02.2018 um 07:15 schrieb Rupert Gallagher:
> We have the same problem, with a twist. When Thunderbird deletes a 
> folder, it is still shown by the GUI. Dovecot deleted the folder 
> correctly, and the sunscriptions file is also correct. Some other 
> times, on shared folders, Thunderbird refuses to delete; in this case, 
> apple mail on iphone can delete successfully. This suggests that the 
> problem is in Thunderbird's code.
>
> R
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 21:55, Remko Lodder <remko at FreeBSD.org 
> <mailto:remko at FreeBSD.org>> wrote:
>>> On 5 Feb 2018, at 17:32, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi 
>>> <mailto:aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi>> wrote:
>>>> On February 5, 2018 at 6:16 PM Gabriel Kaufmann 
>>>> <mailings at typoworx.com <mailto:mailings at typoworx.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't anyone have an idea?
>>>>
>>>> It looks like Dovecot and/or Thunderbird simply "ignore" 
>>>> sub-folders of
>>>> IMAP-Folder in Trash/ as they are also not shown in Trash-Folder.
>>>> Sub-Folder for INBOX and other IMAP-Folders work perfect (using
>>>> layout=fs Mailbox).
>>>>
>>>> Why doesn't this work for Trash?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Gabriel Kaufmann
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you try running this as root and provide output?
>>>
>>> doveadm -Dv -o mail_debug=yes mailbox delete -u username 
>>> Trash/Somefolder
>>>
>>> Aki
>>
>>
>> I had the same with Mac Mail.app. I decided to rm -rf the sdbox file 
>> on the master and replica and I won.
>> It was persistant though and I think it had to do with the following:
>>
>> I let my mail deliver in yearboxes, which have many many subfolders, 
>> some are just "placeholders". They appear different in the view.
>> Regular mailboxes are "dark" in colors, placeholder boxes are "white" 
>> in colors (see attachment), where winkels is the "placeholder" folder 
>> and "action" is the regular mailbox in which mail gets delivered.
>>
>> I could not get rid of those "winkels" kind of folders". Only by 
>> force removing them from the filesystem hierarchie.
>>
>> Hope this helps a bit :)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Remko
>>
>>
>>

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