Hello everyone,

First of all, many thanks for the excellent ‘product’ mailcow. I used to configure my mailserver manually with postfix-dovecot-rspamd setups and have to say that i am very satisfied after switching to mailcow. After some initial hurdles, my setup is now running to my satisfaction.

However, i am still having problems with deleting folders in the public namespace. I have created a public namespace and some folders underneath and also the correct acl settings for users.
The problem is that the folders under public cannot be deleted by a mail client. in the console on the dovecot server via doveadm the folder or mailbox can be deleted without any problems.

The problem seems to be the different namespaces (error message: Failed to delete folder: Can’t rename mailboxes across specified storages, Last command: A8 RENAME ‘Public/ZZZTest123/Test’ ‘Trash/Test’). When deleting, the mail client probably tries to move the folder to be deleted from the public folder to the folder ‘Trash/Test’ of the user’s private namespace and this is not allowed. Is there a setting in dovecot how to solve the problem with the deletion?

Many thanks in advance for any answers.

Greetings
Stefan

Hello, by me fastest solution is reconfigure (at least temporary) your client. Let say, your client is Thunderbird, go to your Account settings than Server Settings, there you should find 3 choices: Delete as move, Delete as mark, Delete immediately. Chose last to use DELETE command instead moving to trash. After you delete what you need, you can switch back to “safer” first option by moving to trash folder. If you use different client I would except that you will have similar settings,..

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Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I know the option under Thunderbird, it also works. However, there are other mail clients - mainly webmailers such as groupoffice - in use that do not support this option.
I had hoped that there might be a solution other than Thunderbird. But the solution via Thunderbird is a viable option for now.

Have a nice evening.

Greetings
Stefan

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