Cannot move mail to IMAP folder

At some point recently after a Mail.app update, the following has changed:
I can no longer move messages into my ISPs IMAP folder. Mail.app gives me a dialog saying: The destination mailbox "<name>" does not allow messages to be moved to it.
The ISP says this is not true, and Windows and UNIX clients can move messages into the mailbox just fine.
Only Mail.app cannot.
This seems possibly related to another post I made about recent IMAP/Mail.app issues.
Ideas appreciated.

Mail.app and Dovecot IMAP server... for some reason the combination ended up leaving a process running that locked the mailbox permanently.
This issue seems to be fixed on the server and Mail.app is happy now.
No idea why it happened on the day Mail.app got updated.

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