preferred way to move an imap folder

@lbutlr kremels at kreme.com
Thu Feb 22 18:53:40 EET 2018


On 2018-02-22 (07:48 MST), himbeere at shinymail.de wrote:
> 
> Hello list.
> 
> What is the preferred way to move an imap folder. Lets say an User has.
> 
> .maildir/.INBOX.Junk
> 
> I want to move this imap folder to:
> 
> .maildir/.Junk
> 
> Can i just use:
> 
> mv .maildir/.INBOX.Junk .maildir/.Junk
> 
> and be done with that?

Yes, but if the mailbox is defined as being under .INBOX it will recreate it.


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