Re: Spurious mail folders

On Monday 28 November 2011, Anne Wilson wrote:
> When I tested KMail 2 I had several spurious folders created.  I do
> remember that Kevin wrote about this at some time, but I can't find
> the mail or blog from which I read it.  If I recall correctly, the
> problem occurs if a folder contains unread messages at the moment of
> migration. OTOH, I may be remembering that completely wrong.  In my
> case the folders concerned all had names beginning with upper case
> letters (most of my folders do), and a new folder with a lower-case
> letter was created, such as
> 
> A-spam
> a-spam
> 
> KMail 1 doesn't see those folders, but KMail 2 did, and Thunderbird
> does.  Whatever the problem is, it's on the IMAP server, as it
> doesn't seem possible to do anything about it on the client end -
> moving to trash

With KMail 2? Or with Thunderbird?


> merely results in a new entity being created upon
> restart.

Created by KMail? Or also by Thunderbird?

Does this only happen with migrated folders? Or also with newly created 
folders beginning with an upper case letter?


> In a mail client, clicking on one of them results in a message that
> the server replied that they do not exist.

Is the server correct? Did you look at the server?


> My question, then, is should I seek these folders on the server and
> delete them there?  Any hints?

You can try.


Regards,
Ingo

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