From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QTOFh-0008Tq-Cd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:05:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBFB41C002 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 01:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D2A1C0D7 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 00:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yib2 with SMTP id 2so1052667yib.40 for ; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:27:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=yCJzmC8oxGJiq+dOigmR7O/eG35zkdZQtZkxGbyjLTE=; b=fCx+KSXh0QZfaW2q2Ip/IEjqgBRQBJmbIYhETDEzCBQE3fXBn4fDco8UifKzVKP8qj 481T5oh78iPJq8pb8DxgDUoJ94Fj5gvq9SJ+w8ARoAlc10sHfMvBoOhHpKER8m1tWD7Y rLjxq6Ovc9ZUwNSGu8GzuRKkHld4QZQm3lls8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=gIUNbircuPXwsPri0afh+at6/Yi3q/HPaEuxwoVkaZ+Ap66GNEJ7w/3WMxgMqU2wSv XE64T4tOGaUVJ9JbLSC64HSC4wGWLMom/foR2WVroWiQ5dphr8B1ttGpt9AOJfKVCZT0 GJJXUQuy6fu+yq5ENNHAQc9kfg9Nqb9ijn1Jo= Received: by 10.150.73.2 with SMTP id v2mr3647445yba.341.1307320047698; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaurahari.merseine.nu (adsl-72-152-83-64.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.83.64]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k10sm2112393yhj.36.2011.06.05.17.27.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:27:24 -0400 From: Indi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED] Message-ID: <20110606002724.GB8894@gaurahari.merseine.nu> References: <20110606000724.GA7627@gaurahari.merseine.nu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110606000724.GA7627@gaurahari.merseine.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 09ab8015a5e66ca068410cc33bb56d27 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. -- klaatu virada nicto