On 06.03.2018 21:55, Yves Goergen wrote: > Hi there, > > I cannot delete IMAP folders in new mailboxes. When trying to delete a > folder in Thunderbird I get the error message "renaming not supported > across conflicting directory permissions". Looking up the error on the > web led me to checking the mailbox directory's permissions. They're > inconsistent in new mailboxes. While every single directory in an old > mailbox has "drwx--S---", some of the directories in a new mailbox > have "drwxr-sr-x" instead. I'm not sure what that means. The folders > with the later permissions are "Drafts", "Sent" and "Trash". Folders > with the first permissions are "Junk", "Archives" and "Archives.2018". > All folders were created by Thunderbird automatically. Now I wanted to > delete "Archives.2018". > > What's the issue here? Why do folders created by the same MUA in the > same event on the same mail server have different permissions and why > can't I delete one of them (which would probably move it into the > trash folder first)? > > Dovecot version is 2.2.22 on Ubuntu 16.04, Thunderbird is 52.6.0 on > Windows 10. > > -Yves
Your problem is that your Trash folder appears to be on different volume than the folder you are attempting to delete. Aki