[Users] Gmail account: impossible to delete Drafts, Sent, Queue and Trash folders

[Brian Morrison]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:20:28 +0200
Removed GDPR <removed-gdpr at example.com> wrote:

> > No, it's not a bug. But you can tell the account to use Gmail
> > provided folders and remove later the ones which Claws Mail creates
> > by default.
> >
> > See account preferences, Advanced page, Folder group.  
> 
> I have already done that. Yet strangely the 4 folders created by Claws
> Mail were there and impossible to delete... until I restarted the
> program. After restarting: only the Queue was at the root level and I
> could delete it.
> 
> Definitely weird (and looks buggy).

It's done like that to ensure that you can't delete the necessary
folders completely, so it's a 2 stage process, change the folders to
where you want them then restart and delete the originals.

For your protection.

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Brian