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<div>On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:40, Steffen Kaiser <<a href="mailto:skdovecot@inf.h-brs.de" class="">skdovecot@inf.h-brs.de</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>> Thunderbird (or some versions anyway) will display any subscribed folder, regardless if it exists or not.</div>
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<div>> Dovecot fails to both delete or rename non-existant folders. </div>
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<div>> Checkout the local file "subscriptions" in your mailbox storage. (Close any mail client before).</div>
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<div>More explicitly, there are three possible actions here: </div>
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<div>- the postmaster edits a user's subscription file in the server :-((</div>
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<div>- the user edits the same file using their own client software (Thunderbird fails on this) :-(</div>
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<div>- Thunderbird is patched to automatically clear the subscription file from non-existent folders :-)</div>
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