[MlMt] Ghost mailboxes

[Randall Gellens]

--Randall

On 25 May 2018, at 7:43, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 24 May 2018, at 22:03, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>> I know this has been discussed before, but is there a way to purge 
>> ghost mailboxes?  I have some mailboxes that I told MM to delete or 
>> move into a folder.  The mailboxes are empty and in red, but they 
>> never go away and are distracting to see.  Can I manually delete them 
>> from a plist somewhere?
>
> You can use the GUI. Right-click the IMAP account -> "Edit IMAP 
> Account..." -> "Edit Subscriptions..." and uncheck the phantom 
> mailbox.

I don't see "Edit Subscriptions" under "Edit IMAP Account".  There's a 
pane to fill in the server info, account info, etc.

> The root causes of this are that most IMAP servers don't sanity-check 
> the "subscriptions" list against the actual list of mailboxes and that 
> all MUAs for an account share a common subscription list, so they tend 
> to avoid exerting automatic arbitrary control over it.

I guessed that perhaps MM doesn't refresh the mailbox list after 
deleting a mailbox.