dovecot - Nov 2006 - Can't remove folder

Hello,

Here is a 'me too' somewhat like:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-January/010759.html

Example scenario:
/u/username/Mail/subfolder/somebox
    subfolder is a directory
    somebox is a mbox

When I use Thunderbird's "Delete folder" function on the somebox
the
message appears:
"Target mailbox doesn't allow inferiour mailboxes".

Thunderbird, by default, tries to move it to Trash instead of deleting 
it directly.
When I change the preference to "Remove it immediately" it works.

Which component is at fault here:
  - limitation of a mbox only setup?
  - thunderbird should know
  - limitation of the imap protocol to advice the client it's mbox backed
  - feature of dovecot, could it be fixed or worked around somehow

--
Leroy

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 22:19 +0100, Leroy van Logchem
wrote:
> When I use Thunderbird's "Delete folder" function on the
somebox the
> message appears:
> "Target mailbox doesn't allow inferiour mailboxes".
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284933
>   - limitation of a mbox only setup?
Yes.
>   - thunderbird should know
Yes.
>   - limitation of the imap protocol to advice the client it's mbox
backed
No.
>   - feature of dovecot, could it be fixed or worked around somehow
An evil Thunderbird-specific workaround could be done, ie. detect if
RENAME is tried to be done under Trash mbox, and convert that
automatically to DELETE command. I'm not really interested in
implementing that though..

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