288295 - IMAP folders do not resync when renamed or deleted from another client

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[m_enzo69]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Thunderbird Mac OS X version 1.0.2 (20050317)

My main mail program to access my Exchange IMAP account is Mail.app (Mac OS X).
I have created and renamed several mail folders using Mail.app. However, when I
use Thunderbird on Mac OS X or Win XP, the old fold names appear and their
subfolders, but they cannot be accessed.

Dialog (which I get 3 times for a subfolder or a subfolder):
The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Mailbox does not
exist.

This is correct. 

The preference dialog for folder subscriptions shows that I am not subscribed to
the deleted folder, but it shows it (shaded out) because I am subscribed to the
subfolders. I had to unsubscribe all the subfolders and resubscribe to them in
the new "renamed" folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Rename IMAP folder on non-thunderbird client
2. Open Thunderbird and try to access folder
3.

Actual Results:  
Dialog (which I get 3 times for a subfolder or a subfolder):
The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Mailbox does not
exist.

Expected Results:  
the old fodler should have been unsubscribed from and the new folder (with all
subfolders) should have been subscribed to.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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