Cyrus and PHP imap_mail_move

Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 13:06:47 EDT 2008


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Marten Lehmann <lehmann at cnm.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed, that imap_mail_move() does not move the message(s) on our
> cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-8.1.RHEL4, while imap_mail_copy() works fine. When
> I'm requesting the capabilities, then cyrusd announces NO_ATOMIC_RENAME.
>  Does this mean, that it is not possible to move a message from one
> folder to another directly? Of course one could copy and delete+expunge
> later, but thats annoying and error-prone.

You can rename a mailbox (or a folder) and can copy (aka duplicate) an email.
But to move an email, you have to copy and delete it.
This the way imap works.

>
> Regards
> Marten
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