William Blunn wrote:
Can't get Thunderbird 2 to delete a folder under mdbox (Dovecot 2.0beta5)
I have built Dovecot 2.0 and installed it under "/opt/dovecot2".
I have done the minimum configurations necesary to get it to work with
SSL, systems users but with a secondary password database, and set up
mail location as "mdbox:~/dbox".
I had to create the directory "dbox" in the user's home directory to
get things working.
Using Thunderbird 2, I can happily copy messages into this system and
read them out again, and that all works.
In the user's "~/dbox" directory, I get a "storage" directory and a
file "m.1".
I can also create folders, and nested folders, and put messages into
those and read them out again, and that all works.
If I try to delete a folder through Thunderbird 2, what happen is that
the folder gets moved to be under a folder "Trash" (which Thunderbird
calls "Deleted").
So if I had a folder "foo" and deleted it, I end up with a folder
"Trash/foo" (which Thunderbird calls "Deleted/foo").
Fair enough: Thunderbird is doing a trash can model on folders.
I then go to remove the folder foo from "Trash". Thunderbird doesn't
complain, and the folder disappears from the folder list.
But upon re-starting Thunderbird, we see that the folder "foo" is
still there under "Trash". So it seems the folder was never properly
deleted.
Perhaps this is a bug in Thunderbird 2, but since this is a beta
Dovecot with a new storage subsystem, I thought I would suggest that
it might be an issue with Dovecot 2.0beta5.
I have some more information on this:
(I have now configured a "namespace" under Dovecot in order for force
Dovecot to present the hierarchy separator under IMAP as ".".)
If I do a manual IMAP session to Dovecot, I can successfully delete the
folder "Trash" / "foo" (now called "Trash.foo") using the IMAP "DELETE"
command.
If I use Thunderbird's "Empty Deleted" option from the "File" menu, then
that seems to properly delete the folder under "Trash" ("Deleted").
If I try to delete a folder under "Trash" ("Deleted") by doing
right-click then selecting "Delete", this does not properly delete the
folder --- it appears to disappear, but comes back on a re-start of
Thunderbird.
So that would seem to put the ball back with Thunderbird 2, which
probably means the issue is likely to close about now because there is a
workaround and it is the old version of Thunderbird.
Regards,
Bill
