David Dooling wrote: > You cannot delete folders using Thunderbird if you use uw-imap. > Whenever Thunderbird deletes something, messages or folders, it wants > to move it into the trash. Since uw-imap does not support folders > that hold messages and folders, Thunderbird fails when it tries to > move the folder to the trash. > > > What do you mean by ``it moves them to under your account folder''. > Weren't your folders already under your account? > > No they were in a subfolder called mail.
You are right, this is the apparent behavior under uw-imap+tbird.. It tries to move deleted folders to Trash. If you move the IMAP Trash folder physically, it actually copies the deleted folder under your home directory (sibling to INBOX.) Allowing you to delete it permanently. I looked into this a bit more. Here is where TBird keeps your profile (one Windows): C:\Documents and Settings\<userid>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default\nhjo21jl.slt The [nhjo21jl.slt] may be unique to your(my) machine. [prev path]\ImapMail\<Server address> is where the various .msf files reside. Each of these files is an index into your cached mail headers from the IMAP messages in a folder. [1] If you have done something to get these files out of sync with your physical IMAP folders, then you should remove the [foldername].msf files from your profile (make a backup first.) TBird will recreate the existing ones IMAP sees when it relaunches. [2] A similar problem to mine [3] In the end, I could not use the delete .msf technique from the profile. I had to use the touch file on my server home dir method. I guess uw-imap is my main problem, as I have previously reported. If TBird had some other options for deleting folders and/or messages it would be nice. Thanks for the info. Ed [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders (See Compacting doesn't work) [3] http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=373811&highlight=delete+folders -- Ed Howland WDT Solutions, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (314) 962-0766 _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
