filesystem directories not removed

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Jean-Christophe Delaye wrote:

> On the filesystem view, I noticed that when a user delete an imap folder
> from his imap client, the directory in the filesystem tree still remains
> present. Of course, the user can create again the same folder name, but
> I'm just wonder if there is a way to change this behavior.

This is because on many filesystems, you can't remove a directory that a
process is chdir'd into.  Cyrus is designed to (for better or worse) chdir
into the directory of the selected mailbox.

There's a patch floating around on bugzilla to change this behavior, but
its not well-tested, IIRC.

-Rob

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