[imp] Can't create subfolders with UW-IMAP

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Andreas Vögele <voegelas at gmx.net>:

> Andreas Vögele wrote:
>
>> I can't create subfolders with UW-IMAP when using IMP 4.1 or IMP 
>> 4.1.1-cvs.  For example, if a user tries to create a subfolder B in 
>> folder A he gets the following error message:
>>
>> The folder "A/B" was not created. This is what the server said: 
>> CREATE failed: Can't create mailbox node /home/peter/mail/A/: File 
>> exists
>
> This seems to be a bug in the latest Debian package of UW-IMAP.
>

I don't think that is the correct answer.  I think the correct answer 
is that it is the way UW-IMAP works; at least as it is configured.  I'm 
using a Redhat Fedora release.

The problem is:

Folder A is a file.
Subfolders are files under directories.
You can't create subfolder A/B because you can't create a directory A 
because file A already exists.

I workaround the issue by renaming A, creating A/B and then finally 
renaming the renamed A to A/Inbox.  Others suggested replacing UW-IMAP 
and others suggested modifying its code.  See the archives with my name 
from about three or four months ago.

Earnie Boyd

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