249299 - Can't delete folders at all: No context menu and no reaction on "Delete" Key or manual deleting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197228

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Johannes Kastl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

If I send a message, all sent messages from my several accounts are stored in on
folder. So all the other "sent" Folders could be deleted, cause they are no
longer needed.
But I am not able to delete one of these folder.
- right click => context menue shows no item for delete 
- hitting "Delete"-Key has no effect at all
- manually deleting the folder => Mozilla recreates this folder.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

On IMAP, Inbox, Drafts, Templates, and Sent folders are 'Special Folders' and
cannot be deleted.  This is by design.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

I thought they should be deletable if other folders are set to fill their
function? Related: bug 197228

Comment 3

[Johannes Kastl]

(In reply to comment #1)
> On IMAP, Inbox, Drafts, Templates, and Sent folders are 'Special Folders' and
> cannot be deleted.  This is by design.

Im sorry, I was talking about POP3 Accounts. No IMAP at all. I also checked it
in MOzilla 1.6 on a linux machine.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

"Delete" is available under file->delete, probably not operative in this case.
A workaround seems to exist:  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197228#c18

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Johannes Kastl]

To keep this bug open, cos it still exists and it is still not solved, Im
writing this:

The Problem still exists with Mozilla 1.7.11 and 1.7.12.

Comment 7

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Definitely looks like a dupe of 197228 to me.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197228 ***