The fact that this still hasn't been resolved in the public release after almost 15 years is, quite frankly, disgusting.
These kind of amateurish bugs and the utter inability of anyone to fix them years, or in this case, DECADES later is exactly why nobody takes open-source software seriously. Rename either folder in some way and be done with it. This does not need to be debated until our eyes and ears bleed. Make a command decision and fix it one way or the other. Delete should just work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214366 Title: Can't delete a folder if Trash already contains a folder of the same name Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: In Progress Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird 1. Create a new folder, eg. "Temp" 2. Delete it, OK 3. Create the same folder again 4. Delete it, OK I expect it to be moved to my Trash folder, perhaps with a suffix appended (it being the second instance of that folder in the trash). Thunderbird popped up an error message. On an imap host: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Mailbox already exists. In the local folders: A folder with that name already exists. Please enter a different name (!) Workarounds: 1. Empty the trash 2. Rename the folder before deletion 3. Rename the folder already in the trash 4. Delete (permanently) the folder that is already in the trash Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy thunderbird 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/214366/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
