2012280 - can't remove yahoo bulk folder from trash (after accidentiallly moving the spam folder into trash)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Mike S]

Attachment: yahoo bulk/spam folder in trash

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/126.0.0.0

Steps to reproduce:

i accidently moved the yahoo bulk/spam folder into the trash and i'm not able to move it back into the main yahoo menu

Actual results:

when i try to remove it from the trash, i'm blocked from moving it, if i delete it from the trash folder it continues to keep coming back

Expected results:

i would expect to be able to move the bulk/spam folder back to it's original place in the yahoo menu

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

(Probably shouldn't allow moving Spam if not allowing delete)

Comment 2

[gene smith]

The same problem is reported here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1597665
The only solution seems to be to use the "folder flags" add-on as discussed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/xdfqub/junk_bulk_folder_in_trash_yahoo_mail/

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #1)

(Probably shouldn't allow moving Spam if not allowing delete)

It looks like all "special" folder can't be move, copied or deleted so not sure how reporter of this bug and support reporter actually moved their Junk folder into trash.

The only way I know to do this w/o addon is to mark another user folder as the Junk folder using junk settings. Then move or delete the Junk folder into Trash. Then mark Trash/Junk as the junk folder using junk settings.

Comment 3

[Mike S]

my issue was resolved months ago using folder flags