Apparently, though unproven, at 02:27 on Monday 06 June 2011, Indi did opine thusly:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 08:07:24PM -0400, Indi wrote: > > So, following several suggestions I emerge thunderbird for > > testing, and the first thing I noticed is it does what people > > insist it doesn't do: creates redundant Trash and Drafts folders, > > both locally and (cardinal sin) on the remote server! > > So now in mutt there are all these redundant mail folders screwing > > up my carefully created IMAP structure. > > So, merely invoking thunderbird has created a mess. > > > > Doesn't appear to be fixable... > > Hopefully I'm wrong and there's a trick to it? > > Ok, got it -- weirdly enough, one has to use the CLI to address > this. The GUI preferences dialog doesn't have a provision for > making t-bird not create unwanted folders, but once they're created > can be deleted in ~/.thunderbird/ and then they don't come back > when t-bird is restarted. > > Now it's running with only the remote and local IMAP structures > as they're supposed to be. Believe it or not you are supposed to "make invisible" all the junk the app created. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
