Renaming top level/sub mailboxes

David Mayo D.J.Mayo at bath.ac.uk
Tue Jan 25 10:51:51 EST 2011


Simon,

On 25/01/11 15:40, Simon Matter wrote:

>> When I try to move a top level mailbox to be a sub mailbox, or vice
>> versa, the IMAP server returns:
>>
>> "NO Operation is not supported on mailbox"
>>
>> eg.
>>
>> renm user.toplevel user.aa.toplevel
>> renm user.aa.toplevel user.toplevel
>>
>> Why is this? Can I get around it other than creating a new mailbox and
>> copying the messages over (which loses the \Seen state).
>
> Is 'allowusermoves' enabled in imapd.conf?

Yes. I can rename top level mailboxes to other top level mailboxes, or 
sub mailboxes to other sub mailboxes - it's just renaming between the 
two types that fails.

Regards,


Dave
Networks/Systems Administrator, BUCS


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