Feature: Option to delete empty folders?

Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net
Tue May 5 08:02:23 BST 2015


On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:29:16AM +0200, Jakob Wrigley wrote:

> How about an option to automatically delete folders that are already
> empty locally as well as on the server? If offlineimap checks that there
> are both local and remote folders are empty first, there is no risk of
> accidentally deleting a whole bunch of emails, or?

I think that's too much complexity and defeats the purpose of making the
removal free of manual action on remote. It would be easier to introduce
a configuration option like "deletefolders".

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Nicolas Sebrecht




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