dovecot - Jul 2011 - Dovecot 2.0.13 and removing IMAP folders in thunderbird

Hi,

I use Dovecot-2.0.13 with mdbox and Thunderbird (IMAP). I have dozens of
imap folders and sometimes I wish to delete several folders:

First Problem:

If I remove a folder under TB, it get moved to my Trash folder. After
that I close TB, which also purges the trash. When I come back, the
deleted folder and its content is still there. There is no way to remove
it with TB. On the server side I see that the folder is listed under
mailboxes/Trash and in the subscriptions file, a last line shows that
Trash/foldername is subscribed. If I remove that line and the
mailboxes-folder, then TB is happy again.

Second problem:

If I have two folders a and b, both containing a folder example:

a/example
b/example

I only can delete one folder. By deleting the second one, the IMAP
server tells me that there already exists on folder named example.

I am not sure, if this is thunderbird or dovecot related, but both
problems are really annoying. Am I missing some configuration?

Thunderbird is Ubuntu's packaged version 3.1.10.

Thanks for any ideas and help in advance and don't get me wrong: I
really love dovecot ;-)

Best wishes
Christian
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:00:34 +0200, Christian Roessner
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Dovecot-2.0.13 with mdbox and Thunderbird (IMAP). I have dozens 
> of
> imap folders and sometimes I wish to delete several folders:
>
> First Problem:
>
> If I remove a folder under TB, it get moved to my Trash folder. After
> that I close TB, which also purges the trash. When I come back, the
> deleted folder and its content is still there. There is no way to 
> remove
> it with TB. On the server side I see that the folder is listed under
> mailboxes/Trash and in the subscriptions file, a last line shows that
> Trash/foldername is subscribed. If I remove that line and the
> mailboxes-folder, then TB is happy again.
Hi Christian,

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Clients#Thunderbird

protocol imap {
   imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
}

That should also solve your second problem.

Best regards,

Morten

Am 10.07.2011 18:00, schrieb Christian Roessner:
> Hi,
> 
> I use Dovecot-2.0.13 with mdbox and Thunderbird (IMAP). I have dozens of
> imap folders and sometimes I wish to delete several folders:
> 
> First Problem:
> 
> If I remove a folder under TB, it get moved to my Trash folder. After
> that I close TB, which also purges the trash. When I come back, the
> deleted folder and its content is still there. There is no way to remove
> it with TB. On the server side I see that the folder is listed under
> mailboxes/Trash and in the subscriptions file, a last line shows that
> Trash/foldername is subscribed. If I remove that line and the
> mailboxes-folder, then TB is happy again.
yes , this sometimees happens, manual unsubscribe with/in TB an restart
fixes this in most cases, no need to edit subscript file

( sometimes after heavy tests and reconfigures etc i edited the
subscript file anyway )
> 
> Second problem:
> 
> If I have two folders a and b, both containing a folder example:
> 
> a/example
> b/example
> 
> I only can delete one folder. By deleting the second one, the IMAP
> server tells me that there already exists on folder named example.
ok this is a move/copy to trash, there cant be 2 folders under trash with
same names
> 
> I am not sure, if this is thunderbird or dovecot related, but both
> problems are really annoying. Am I missing some configuration?
> 
> Thunderbird is Ubuntu's packaged version 3.1.10.
just tested with tb5
your first case didnt happend in my tests, but i know it from
3.1.x
> 
> Thanks for any ideas and help in advance and don't get me wrong: I
> really love dovecot ;-)
i am nearly sure this is no dovecot problem, for info i use maildirs
> 
> Best wishes
> Christian

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