INBOX folders disappeared after upgrading

[Dave]

On Tue, April 21, 2020 11:50 am, John Stoffel wrote:
>>>>>> "Dave" == Dave  <dave at techhosts.com> writes:
>
> Dave> On Thu, April 16, 2020 2:33 pm, John Stoffel wrote:
>>> Makes sense.  I'm not a dovecot expert, but in terms of RHEL, have you
>>> checkd that the yum update didn't change file permissions, or enable
>>> selinux or do something like that?
>
> Dave> old (before upgrade) dir was like this (from backup):
>
> I think your dovecot config has changed in some manner.  Can you share
> the output of 'dovecot -n' please?

'dovecot -n' was how I opened this thread, as it was recommended to start
out providing as much info as possible. Please read the 1st message you
originally replied to

> Dave> drwx------  2 dave dave  245760 Mar 10 16:56 cur
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave   48744 Mar  9 14:48 dovecot.index
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave 1920452 Mar  2 06:49 dovecot.index.cache
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave    1808 Mar 10 17:01 dovecot.index.log
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave   32792 Mar  9 14:48 dovecot.index.log.2
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave     450 Sep 15  2017 dovecot.index.thread
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave    3192 Aug 26  2019 dovecot.mailbox.log
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave  206829 Mar 10 16:56 dovecot-uidlist
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave       8 May  7  2019 dovecot-uidvalidity
> Dave> -r--r--r--  1 dave dave       0 Nov 14  2016
> dovecot-uidvalidity.582a69fb
> Dave> -r--r--r--  1 dave dave       0 Nov 14  2016
> dovecot-uidvalidity.582a6a01
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x  5 dave dave     167 Aug 28  2019 .DRAFTS
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x 33 dave dave    4096 Mar  2  2019 .INBOX
> Dave> drwx------  2 dave dave    4096 Mar 10 16:56 new
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x  5 dave dave     192 Dec 21 14:33 .SENT
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x  5 dave dave     192 Feb 12 16:04 .SPAM
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave     728 Aug 26  2019 subscriptions
> Dave> drwx------  2 dave dave      10 Mar 10 18:17 tmp
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x 14 dave dave     320 Sep 11  2019 .TRASH
>
> Dave> new dir is now like so (maybe this gives some clues to someone,
> Dave> altho I assume the dovecot guys would understand the changes
> Dave> that have been made - I tried to dig thru changelogs to some
> Dave> level):
>
> I suspect it's a config change that was put in place by the RHEL
> upgrade, which is why you need to provide the 'dovecot -n' output.
>
> Dave> drwx------.  2 dave dave  221184 Apr 17 02:28 cur
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave   80008 Apr 16 13:33 dovecot.index
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave 2113444 Apr 16 13:30 dovecot.index.cache
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave   29992 Apr 17 02:34 dovecot.index.log
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave     450 Sep 15  2017 dovecot.index.thread
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave    3192 Aug 26  2019 dovecot.mailbox.log
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave  227210 Apr 17 02:28 dovecot-uidlist
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave       8 Mar 28 09:31 dovecot-uidvalidity
> Dave> -r--r--r--.  1 dave dave       0 Nov 14  2016
> dovecot-uidvalidity.582a6a04
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Mar 28 09:31 DRAFTS
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Aug 28  2019 .DRAFTS
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 32 dave dave    4096 Mar  2  2019 .INBOX
> Dave> drwx------.  2 dave dave    4096 Apr 20 18:13 new
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Mar 28 09:31 SENT
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Apr 15 19:21 .SENT
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Mar 17 13:22 .SPAM
> Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave     728 Aug 26  2019 subscriptions
> Dave> drwx------.  2 dave dave       6 Apr 20 18:13 tmp
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Mar 28 09:31 TRASH
> Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 14 dave dave    4096 Sep 11  2019 .TRASH
>
> Dave> no config changes were done, just binary updates.. I compared
> configs
> Dave> against the backup to check
>
> How did you compare them?

copied the configs from the backup to a tmp dir and ran diff

>>> Can you see the mail using none IMAP based tools?  What do the dovecot
>>> and postfix logs show?  And what about squirrelmail?  Check all your
>>> logs for permissions issues.
>
> Dave> I put the old subscriptions file back and do (pure dovecot at this
> point):
>
> Dave> [dave at vm1 ~]$ doveadm mailbox list
> Dave> SENT
> Dave> TRASH
> Dave> DRAFTS
> Dave> SPAM
> Dave> INBOX
>
> Dave> (SPAM was an old folder I had created many years back, other than
> it,
> Dave> everything had been created as folders under INBOX)
>
> Dave> subscriptions (snippet)
>
> Dave> SENT
> Dave> TRASH
> Dave> DRAFTS
> Dave> INBOX/Facebook
> Dave> SPAM
> Dave> INBOX/Amazon
> Dave> INBOX/Linkedin
> Dave> INBOX/bills
> Dave> INBOX/ADT
> Dave> INBOX/food
> Dave> INBOX/money
> Dave> INBOX/art
> Dave> INBOX/pets
> Dave> ........
>
>>> doveadm log errors
>
> Dave> alot of errs related to the previous folders that used to work
>
> Dave> Apr 07 15:21:43 Warning: imap(dave): Subscriptions file
> Dave> /home/davej/Maildir/subscriptions: Removing invalid entry:
> INBOX/property
> Dave> Apr 15 14:55:39 Warning: imap(dave): Subscriptions file
> Dave> /home/dave/Maildir/subscriptions: Removing invalid entry:
> INBOX/Facebook
>
> This smells funky, are there any *other* errors or warnings in the log
> file other than these types of messages?

did not find anything else, one reason this is such a mystery.. I was
hoping by posting here, the dovecot folks/developers would have a clue,
since they'd be more intimate with the changes that could have affected
this situation

> John

Regards,
-Dave