[Dovecot] Folders mysterously deleted

[Andy Cravens]

I forgot to mention we're using maildir.  I logged on to the mail server 
and went directly to the user's mail directory and the folders were 
really gone.  The subscriptions file did not contain the names of the 
missing folders so I thought maybe some imap process deleted the folders 
and updated the subscriptions file.  Under normal circumstances I would 
assume the user accidently deleted the folders, even thought they insist 
they didn't.  In this case the user was a very competent sysadmin who is 
helping me test dovecot.  So I can't blow it off as a clueless user.  
Still poking around...

Marcus Rueckert wrote:

>On 2005-11-11 15:36:24 -0700, Andy Cravens wrote:
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>>Using alpha 3 on Solaris 9.  One of our users reported all folders 
>>except his inbox were missing.  I went to the server and looked at the 
>>logs and could find no indication that a sysadmin had logged in and 
>>deleted the folders.  Also found no indication of anything unusual in 
>>the dovecot log file.  Has anybody seen a situation where dovecot 
>>deleted folders?
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>are the folders really gone or just invisible to his mail client?
>the later might be caused by stale index files or the user switched on
>'show only subscribed folders' and forgot to subscribe to the other
>folders.
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>darix
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