[MlMt] Ghost mailboxes

[Bill Cole]

On 25 May 2018, at 12:55, Randall Gellens wrote:

>> You can use the GUI. Right-click the IMAP account -> "Edit IMAP 
>> Account..." -> "Edit Subscriptions..." and uncheck the phantom 
>> mailbox.
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> I don't see "Edit Subscriptions" under "Edit IMAP Account".  There's a 
> pane to fill in the server info, account info, etc.

Yes, and a button in the IMAP section.

See attached image...



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

Yes, after a fashion.

The issue is that there isn't One True Mailbox List, and MM does not 
propagate the changes that it makes to the list of all available 
mailboxes (by deleting a mailbox on the server) to the list of mailboxes 
that are "subscribed" and as a consequence get synchronized by MM and 
displayed to the user.
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