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<p>I have the same Problem with thunderbird on Linux.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I have FS-Layout in dovecot. Thunderbird somtimes try to get
a submailbox with INBOX/firstlevel^secondlevel^thirdlevel</p>
<p>Then it doesn't find this mailbox on the server (for sure,
it's INBOX/firstlevel/secondlevel/thirdlevel) tb tries to get
next</p>
<p>INBOX/firstlevel^^secondlevel^^thirdlevel</p>
<p>and then INBOX/firstlevel^^^^secondlevel^^^^thirdlevel and so
on. And on each first login, tb tries to get all of them again
and again...</p>
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<p>Go to $TB-profilefolder/ImapMail/ and delete all of the *.msf
files and search for the wrong mailboxes, described above...
you will finde them.</p>
<p>And they are probably also in some config-files in the
profile. user.prefs i think, and panacea.dat i could find
them.</p>
<p>Delete all of the entries (be careful). Close and restart
firefox. Good look, the phantom-folders are gone.</p>
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jakob</blockquote>
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I tried that. In addition to that I did Trash -> Context-Menu
-> Settings and "Repair". I also deleted Trash.sdb and
Trash.msf in ImapMail-Dir of given Mailbox (after closing
Thunderbird of course and restart afterwards). I think the
repair-button does more or less the same than deleting msf-files.<br>
<p>Trash was rebuilding... but the Folders are still there. I was
able to get rid of some other "Junk folders" (that not even
where shown in my Thunderbird-Trash inside Trash.sdb folder).
But the folders causing current issue are still present after
sync! And on server-side (vmail Mailbox on imap-server) these
folders are also there!</p>
<p>I'm still not able to delete them in Thunderbird. Still getting
error Folder contains children, delete them first". Obviously
this isn't possible as those sub-folders are not shown in
Thunderbird! On server-side of imap (vmail Mailbox) there are in
fact sub-folders in those folders.</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Best regards
Gabriel Kaufmann</pre>
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