(In reply to Ulf Zibis from comment #86) > (In reply to :aceman from comment #84) > > I wouldn't try to implement merging in this bug (it is much harder). > > What's the problem, moving a (bunch of) message(s) to another folder is > already implemented and the suggested dialogue is well known from file > managers. I just mean adding, not merging with existing messages.
You seem to ignore that folders can (and will) not only contain messages, but subfolders as well (where we will run into the same problem again if the subfolder has the same name as an existing folder in the destination folder). Certainly doable, but way out of scope of this bug in my opinion. My opinion: Can we please fix this bug quickly (I regularly rename folders just to be able to delete them...) instead of building the ideal bike shed for everybody? Auto-renaming folders when moved elsewhere is fine for me, asking the user about it is fine too, but if we try to add merging functionality (with its own problems) this bug will not be fixed within the next 10 years, I suppose. -- 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
