[gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

[Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 08:07:24PM -0400, Indi wrote:
> So, following several suggestions I emerge thunderbird for 
> testing, and the first thing I noticed is it does what people 
> insist it doesn't do: creates redundant Trash and Drafts folders, 
> both locally and (cardinal sin) on the remote server!
> So now in mutt there are all these redundant mail folders screwing 
> up my carefully created IMAP structure. 
> So, merely invoking thunderbird has created a mess.
> 
> Doesn't appear to be fixable...
> Hopefully I'm wrong and there's a trick to it?
> 

Ok, got it -- weirdly enough, one has to use the CLI to address
this. The GUI preferences dialog doesn't have a provision for
making t-bird not create unwanted folders, but once they're created
can be deleted in ~/.thunderbird/ and then they don't come back 
when t-bird is restarted.

Now it's running with only the remote and local IMAP structures
as they're supposed to be.

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