[Dovecot] Phantom message using mixed namespaces

[Ian R. Justman]

Timo Sirainen wrote:

> cd Maildir
> ls -l new cur|grep `grep '^3 ' dovecot-uidlist|sed 's/^3 //'`
> 
> What does it show?

While in ~/Maildir:

$ ls -l new cur|grep `grep '^3 ' dovecot-uidlist|sed 's/^3 //'`
-rw-------  1 xxxx  xxxx  119374 Jun 11 14:28
1181669235.P39856Q0M530312.(censored).(censored).(censored):2,S
drwxr-xr-x  2 xxxx  xxxx     512 Jun 12 10:31 mail:2,S


I suspect that my shell's not telling me what my pwd is in the prompt 
and some mistaken assumptions on my part might be a good bunch of my 
problem. :)

To that effect:

$ echo $PS1
\u@\h\$

Though I kinda lied; I said "mkdir mail" assuming my pwd was "~" when in 
fact I didn't know what actual my pwd is, rather than a "mkdir ~/mail". 
  As such, that phantom message appeared in my inbox.

Since this is not a production machine (well, yet, anyway), I wiped 
things and tried again.  Things appear to be OK now.

Sorry about making you go through a Stupid Moment(R) of mine and thanks 
for the tips.  :)

--Ian.