I have the same Problem with thunderbird on Linux.
It looks like thunderbirds imap-implementation is a little bit broken.
Even if thunderbird tried once to get a mailbox, it persists in the profile.
I have FS-Layout in dovecot. Thunderbird somtimes try to get a
submailbox with INBOX/firstlevel^secondlevel^thirdlevel
Then it doesn't find this mailbox on the server (for sure, it's
INBOX/firstlevel/secondlevel/thirdlevel) tb tries to get next
INBOX/firstlevel^^secondlevel^^thirdlevel
and then INBOX/firstlevel^^^^secondlevel^^^^thirdlevel and so on. And on
each first login, tb tries to get all of them again and again...
Go to $TB-profilefolder/ImapMail/ and delete all of the *.msf files and
search for the wrong mailboxes, described above... you will finde them.
And they are probably also in some config-files in the profile.
user.prefs i think, and panacea.dat i could find them.
Delete all of the entries (be careful). Close and restart firefox. Good
look, the phantom-folders are gone.
jakob
Am 06.02.2018 um 07:15 schrieb Rupert Gallagher:
We have the same problem, with a twist. When Thunderbird deletes a
folder, it is still shown by the GUI. Dovecot deleted the folder
correctly, and the sunscriptions file is also correct. Some other
times, on shared folders, Thunderbird refuses to delete; in this case,
apple mail on iphone can delete successfully. This suggests that the
problem is in Thunderbird's code.
R
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 21:55, Remko Lodder <re...@freebsd.org
<mailto:re...@freebsd.org>> wrote:
On 5 Feb 2018, at 17:32, Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi
<mailto:aki.tu...@dovecot.fi>> wrote:
On February 5, 2018 at 6:16 PM Gabriel Kaufmann
<maili...@typoworx.com <mailto:maili...@typoworx.com>> wrote:
Doesn't anyone have an idea?
It looks like Dovecot and/or Thunderbird simply "ignore"
sub-folders of
IMAP-Folder in Trash/ as they are also not shown in Trash-Folder.
Sub-Folder for INBOX and other IMAP-Folders work perfect (using
layout=fs Mailbox).
Why doesn't this work for Trash?
Best regards
Gabriel Kaufmann
Can you try running this as root and provide output?
doveadm -Dv -o mail_debug=yes mailbox delete -u username
Trash/Somefolder
Aki
I had the same with Mac Mail.app. I decided to rm -rf the sdbox file
on the master and replica and I won.
It was persistant though and I think it had to do with the following:
I let my mail deliver in yearboxes, which have many many subfolders,
some are just "placeholders". They appear different in the view.
Regular mailboxes are "dark" in colors, placeholder boxes are "white"
in colors (see attachment), where winkels is the "placeholder" folder
and "action" is the regular mailbox in which mail gets delivered.
I could not get rid of those "winkels" kind of folders". Only by
force removing them from the filesystem hierarchie.
Hope this helps a bit :)
Cheers
Remko
