[Dovecot] Can't remove folder

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 22:19 +0100, Leroy van Logchem wrote:
> When I use Thunderbird's "Delete folder" function on the somebox the 
> message appears:
> "Target mailbox doesn't allow inferiour mailboxes".

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284933

>   - limitation of a mbox only setup?

Yes.

>   - thunderbird should know

Yes.

>   - limitation of the imap protocol to advice the client it's mbox backed

No.

>   - feature of dovecot, could it be fixed or worked around somehow

An evil Thunderbird-specific workaround could be done, ie. detect if
RENAME is tried to be done under Trash mbox, and convert that
automatically to DELETE command. I'm not really interested in
implementing that though..

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