[dev] Renaming folders with sub-folders...

Marc Jauvin marc at register4less.com
Tue Feb 24 15:46:05 PST 2004


Very interesting. The only problem I have with this is that it makes the
interface look buggy to most users (even myself).

Thanks for the info.

Gary Windham <windhamg at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Quoting Marc Jauvin <marc at register4less.com>:
>
>> Further more, if I do the following:
>>
>>    - create a "test" folder"
>>    - create a "sub1" folder under "test"
>>    - delete "test"
>>
>> It will not delete the sub-folder (sub1 in this case). It still shows
>> the "test"
>> folder and sub-folder. If I then delete test.sub1 directly, then everything
>> disappears (as it should).
>>
>> Something is not healthy in there...
>
> This is Cyrus behavior, not IMP behavior.  Deleting a mailbox in Cyrus
> does not
> automatically delete sub-mailboxes.
>
> For example, for the folder hierarchy "a/b/c", deleting "a/b" will not delete
> "a/b/c"; and since the "path" of the folder "c" is "a/b/c", "b" cannot be
> deleted while it still has child folders (instead, Cyrus will mark it 
> with the
> \NonExistent and \Noselect flags--indicating that "b" only exists as a
> component of the path "a/b/c").
>
> --
> Gary Windham
> Systems Programmer, Principal
> The University of Arizona, CCIT
>
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