deleting top-level INBOX

[Greg Banks]

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On 22/02/2012, at 7:23, Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I have accidently created top level "INBOX.Spam" mailbox in Cyrus. I
>  have managed to delete the Spam subfolder, but when deleting INBOX I
>  get:
>
>  localhost> dm INBOX
>  deletemailbox: Operation is not supported on mailbox

Cyrus is obeying the IMAP RFC which says that it is an error to try to  
delete your INBOX.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.3.4

Why not? I'm sure there was a perfectly good reason at the time.

>
>  All needed permissions is there:
>
>  localhost> lam INBOX
>  cyrus lrswipkxtecda
>
>  Is there a way to delete this top-level INBOX?
>

Be an admin user that doesn't own the mailbox, and use "dm user.foo".

Good luck,

Greg.