preferred way to move an imap folder

himbeere at shinymail.de himbeere at shinymail.de
Fri Feb 23 11:21:25 EET 2018


Thank you.

cheers
t.

On 2018-02-22 18:04, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> On 22 February 2018 at 18:53 "@lbutlr" < kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> --
>> 'But you ain't part of it, are you?' said Granny conversationally.
>> 'You
>> try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin'
>> people, eh?
>> Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?'
> 
>  or you can use doveadm mailbox rename
>  ---
> Aki Tuomi


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