Martin Marques wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Chuck, Charlie and Charles wrote: > >> I was looking around the folders code and discovered a minor bug. If >> you create a folder with a dot in it (like test.box) RC will display a >> folder called test with a box sub-folder. That is all as it should be. >> The problem is that it allows you to drag and drop messages into the >> phantom folder and displays it as if it were a real folder. When you >> drag into the folder the message appears to go away, and of course >> doesn't appear in the phantom folder. When you refresh the folder that >> you dragged the message from the message reappears (which is good - at >> least it isn't lost forever). What should happen is that the phantom >> folder should be greyed out, and undraggable (and probably unselectable). > > Is there a reason for these phantom folders to exist?
Yes, for example as container for subfolders. In file based IMAP servers, this is a physical folder holding mailbox files listed as subfolders. Because of being a folder and not a file, the IMAP server cannot write messages to it but unfortunately it is listed. ~Thomas
