[TriLUG] trilug mail server -- imap question (solved)

[Tanner Lovelace]

Just out of curiosity, did you have the checkbox selected that lets
the server override those settings?  I thought that it should inform
the mail client about that, but perhaps that's just for the namespaces.

Glad you got it working.

Cheers,
Tanner


On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:46:42 -0500, Wing D Lizard
<wingedlizard at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> The default IMAP advanced account setting named 'server supports folders
> contain sub-folders and messages'  must be turned off ( till trilug imap is
> upgraded).
> 
> This fixed my problems.
> 
> Thanks all.
> b²
> 
> Wing D Lizard wrote:
> 
> > Yes that is the way I thought it worked ( at least used to work).
> >
> > Since I've upgraded to win32 thunderbird ( from an old mozilla
> > version) it isn't working
> > for me.  I'm using the default IMAP settings.
> >
> > Currently ( at least for me), 1. folders can't contain folders, and 2.
> > folders can't be deleted.
> >
> >
> > Can anybody verify this?
> >
> > b
> >
> > Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> >
> >> Brett,
> >>
> >> At the moment, you can't have folders that contain both other folders
> >> and messages.  You can have folders that contain folders only and
> >> you can have folders that contain messages, but not both.  However,
> >> as soon as we can figure out our problems moving ldap over to the
> >> new server, we will be switching to Cyrus IMAP which will remove this
> >> limitation.
> >>
> >> As far as deleting old folders, you should just be able to right click
> >> the folder in the left side column in Thunderbird and tell it to delete.
> >> It will confirm and then should delete.
> >>
> >> Note, btw, that if you want a folder to contain other folders, the
> >> best way
> >> right now is to create the folder, then immediately create other
> >> folders in it before any messages go in it.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Tanner
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:51:58 -0500, Brett Bolen <brettb at trilug.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Can I have folders that contain folders?
> >>>
> >>> How can I delete old folders?  Thunderbird gives me an error
> >>> when I try to delete it:
> >>>
> >>> >  The current command did not succeed. The mail serer responded:
> >>> >
> >>> >     RENAME failed:  can't create mailbox node
> >>> >        /var/spool/imap/brettb/Trash:  file exists
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
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> >>> b²
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