Add support for creating, deleting and renaming IMAP folders

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Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail)

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Add support for creating, deleting and renaming IMAP folders #1389

Open philipwhiuk opened 8 years ago

philipwhiuk commented 8 years ago

Expected behaviour

A user should be able create, delete and rename IMAP folders

Actual behaviour

The user has to do it via the web client

Notes

It doesn't look too complex to implement: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#page-34

A similar issue will want to be raised for WebDAV.

This blocks #900

cketti commented 8 years ago

We currently don't revert local operations that fail on the server. I believe without this functionality having the ability to create new folders can very easily lead to situations where users lose messages, e.g. because we fail to copy them to the destination folder but delete them from the source folder. We should fix that before allowing users to add/modify folders.

guettli commented 8 years ago

@cketti I understand your concern: message lost must not happen.

Is there already a ticket for this "bigger" issue?

ildar commented 5 years ago

BTW funny thing is that K-9 actually creates folders but without user expecting it: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/3755

Dinduks commented 5 years ago

Hi @cketti. Was there any progress on reverting local operations so we can advance on this issue then on #900? Thanks.

ouafnico commented 4 years ago

Still not feasable in 5.7xx ?

z3dx95g7 commented 4 years ago

any chance we can get something like this added with a warning message about the potential complications? some of us don't even have a web interface for our email to work around this so easily

tsilvs commented 4 years ago

Any progress?

koyuawsmbrtn commented 3 years ago

This is a five year-old bug. It can almost go to school now.

ouafnico commented 3 years ago

This is a five year-old bug. It can almost go to school now.

Yes. And it's too bad it's not yet available. Have to use my webmail for that.

kolbma commented 2 years ago

Couldn't this be simplified with supporting IMAP CREATE, RENAME, DELETE only in synced online state and just refreshing the folder list afterwards?! Then there is no message handling for this on client side. Everything should be handled by the server.
I really miss the possibility to create new folders without going to a desktop. ;-)

koyuawsmbrtn commented 1 year ago

This bug is probably going to be handled using the Mozilla approach. It either waits for decades to get fixed or someone forks the project entirely and people gonna use it. If it wasn't for K9-Mail's great batch management and proper PGP support I'd have used the app that came with my phone by now.

morremeyer commented 1 year ago

If you don't have anything of value to add to this conversation, then please don't comment. To be very clear: Complaining about people not putting in work for free is not adding value to any conversation.

This is still an open source project and the tone and content of the last two comments shows a lack of appreciation of the work people put in the project.

Not only does that not help solve this specific issue, it is also extremely discouraging for maintainers and contributors alike.

Additionally, comments like these also spam everyone subscribed to this issue, which is annoying for everyone involved. So, please, just don't.

Sherlock1979 commented 1 year ago

@cketti Can you please consider adding this one to #6488? Thanks.

Goldmaster commented 8 months ago

I can't see any way to create, rename and move emails and folders at all (yet). Hope it gets added.