Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Crispin
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote: If in Thunderbird the option "server supports folders which can contain both folders and messages" is checked No client should ever have, or need, such a configuration option. This is handled by the IMAP protocol. With the option set, the GUI has a sin

Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-22 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Mark Crispin wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote: If in Thunderbird the option "server supports folders which can contain both folders and messages" is checked No client should ever have, or need, such a configuration option. This is handled by the IMAP prot

Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-21 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote: If in Thunderbird the option "server supports folders which can contain both folders and messages" is checked No client should ever have, or need, such a configuration option. This is handled by the IMAP protocol. (the default, which is true for MIX

Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-21 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Mark Crispin wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote: 5 unsubscribe "Trash/test/" 5 NO Not subscribed to mailbox Trash/test/ - at this point, Trash/test/ has disappeared from the filesystem, but there is still an entry Trash/test in .mailboxlist. Look at the abov

Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-21 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote: I had thought subscriptions vaguely useful - if a user has a lot of archived mail - e.g. 10 folders "1990", "1991" etc. - that they don't want cluttering up the folder list, they may unsubscribe from them. If they then login with a different client, th

Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-21 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Mark Crispin wrote: The ONLY valid use for subscriptions is if a server exports netnews groups or similar functionality. This allows the user to keep a list of which newsgroups he is subscribed to. Now that netnews is effectively dead, the purpose and use of IMAP subsc

Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-14 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Brian Hayden wrote: Just to be explicit, the moral of the story is that using subscriptions is not a good idea because every client is stupid in their handling of subs, and worse, they're all stupid in slightly different ways. Correct. The ONLY valid use for subscriptions

Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-14 Thread Brian Hayden
On May 14 2009, Mark Crispin wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote: 5 unsubscribe "Trash/test/" 5 NO Not subscribed to mailbox Trash/test/ - at this point, Trash/test/ has disappeared from the filesystem, but there is still an entry Trash/test in .mailboxlist. Look at the above ve

Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-14 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote: 5 unsubscribe "Trash/test/" 5 NO Not subscribed to mailbox Trash/test/ - at this point, Trash/test/ has disappeared from the filesystem, but there is still an entry Trash/test in .mailboxlist. Look at the above very carefully. imapd says that Trash/te

Re: [Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-14 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:17 -0700, Andrew Daviel wrote: > 5 unsubscribe "Trash/test/" > 5 NO Not subscribed to mailbox Trash/test/ > 6 logout .. > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357911 > I submitted 414101 now marked as a duplicate I've also had https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

[Imap-uw] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird

2009-05-14 Thread Andrew Daviel
We have a problem with users trying to delete folders using Thunderbird. Part of it is a TB problem IMO (some discussion with Mark a while back; TB is trying to delete an open folder without deselecting it). However, another issue seems to be that imapd is not unsubscribing from the deleted