dovecot - May 2010 - Can't get Thunderbird 2 to delete a folder under mdbox (Dovecot 2.0beta5)

Can't get Thunderbird 2 to delete a folder under mdbox (Dovecot 2.0beta5)

I have built Dovecot 2.0 and installed it under "/opt/dovecot2".

I have done the minimum configurations necesary to get it to work with 
SSL, systems users but with a secondary password database, and set up 
mail location as "mdbox:~/dbox".

I had to create the directory "dbox" in the user's home directory
to get
things working.

Using Thunderbird 2, I can happily copy messages into this system and 
read them out again, and that all works.

In the user's "~/dbox" directory, I get a "storage"
directory and a file
"m.1".

I can also create folders, and nested folders, and put messages into 
those and read them out again, and that all works.

If I try to delete a folder through Thunderbird 2, what happen is that 
the folder gets moved to be under a folder "Trash" (which Thunderbird 
calls "Deleted").

So if I had a folder "foo" and deleted it, I end up with a folder 
"Trash/foo" (which Thunderbird calls "Deleted/foo").

Fair enough: Thunderbird is doing a trash can model on folders.

I then go to remove the folder foo from "Trash". Thunderbird
doesn't
complain, and the folder disappears from the folder list.

But upon re-starting Thunderbird, we see that the folder "foo" is
still
there under "Trash". So it seems the folder was never properly
deleted.

Perhaps this is a bug in Thunderbird 2, but since this is a beta Dovecot 
with a new storage subsystem, I thought I would suggest that it might be 
an issue with Dovecot 2.0beta5.

Regards,

Bill

William Blunn wrote:
> Can't get Thunderbird 2 to delete a folder under mdbox (Dovecot
2.0beta5)
>
> I have built Dovecot 2.0 and installed it under "/opt/dovecot2".
>
> I have done the minimum configurations necesary to get it to work with 
> SSL, systems users but with a secondary password database, and set up 
> mail location as "mdbox:~/dbox".
>
> I had to create the directory "dbox" in the user's home
directory to
> get things working.
>
> Using Thunderbird 2, I can happily copy messages into this system and 
> read them out again, and that all works.
>
> In the user's "~/dbox" directory, I get a "storage"
directory and a
> file "m.1".
>
> I can also create folders, and nested folders, and put messages into 
> those and read them out again, and that all works.
>
> If I try to delete a folder through Thunderbird 2, what happen is that 
> the folder gets moved to be under a folder "Trash" (which
Thunderbird
> calls "Deleted").
>
> So if I had a folder "foo" and deleted it, I end up with a folder
> "Trash/foo" (which Thunderbird calls "Deleted/foo").
>
> Fair enough: Thunderbird is doing a trash can model on folders.
>
> I then go to remove the folder foo from "Trash". Thunderbird
doesn't
> complain, and the folder disappears from the folder list.
>
> But upon re-starting Thunderbird, we see that the folder "foo" is
> still there under "Trash". So it seems the folder was never
properly
> deleted.
>
> Perhaps this is a bug in Thunderbird 2, but since this is a beta 
> Dovecot with a new storage subsystem, I thought I would suggest that 
> it might be an issue with Dovecot 2.0beta5.
I have some more information on this:

(I have now configured a "namespace" under Dovecot in order for force 
Dovecot to present the hierarchy separator under IMAP as ".".)

If I do a manual IMAP session to Dovecot, I can successfully delete the 
folder "Trash" / "foo" (now called "Trash.foo")
using the IMAP "DELETE"
command.

If I use Thunderbird's "Empty Deleted" option from the
"File" menu, then
that seems to properly delete the folder under "Trash"
("Deleted").

If I try to delete a folder under "Trash" ("Deleted") by
doing
right-click then selecting "Delete", this does not properly delete the
folder --- it appears to disappear, but comes back on a re-start of 
Thunderbird.

So that would seem to put the ball back with Thunderbird 2, which 
probably means the issue is likely to close about now because there is a 
workaround and it is the old version of Thunderbird.

Regards,

Bill

On 2010-05-13 5:02 AM, William Blunn wrote:
> So if I had a folder "foo" and deleted it, I end up with a folder
> "Trash/foo" (which Thunderbird calls "Deleted/foo").
We have been using Thunderbird exclusively since before it reached
version 1.0, and it has never, to the best of my recollection, used
anything but 'Trash' for the trash can.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/IMAP_Trash_folder
> Fair enough: Thunderbird is doing a trash can model on folders.
No idea what you mean by that...

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Best regards,

Charles

On 05/13/2010 11:02 AM William Blunn wrote:
> Can't get Thunderbird 2 to delete a folder under mdbox (Dovecot
2.0beta5)
Well, Thunderbird is ?
Please have a look at: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients#Thunderbird


Regards,
Pascal
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