Weird status... " noselect"... why ?

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Sat Apr 23 18:16:28 UTC 2022


> On 22/04/2022 21:11 Stephane Magnier <steph.mag220 at netcourrier.com> wrote:
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> a list "" * gives me this
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> * LIST (\HasChildren \UnMarked) "/" INBOX/2022-PERSONNEL/FOO2
>  * LIST (\HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "/" INBOX/2022-PERSONNEL/FOO2/test
>  * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" INBOX/2022-PERSONNEL/FOO2/test
>  * LIST(\Noselect\HasNoChildren) "/" INBOX/2022-PERSONNEL/FOO2/test/Location
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> As you can see there is " noselect " and with Thunderbird this is in grey.. Due to a bad manipulation. I wanted to create a subfolder and I wrote "FOO2/test" when FOO2 didn't exist yet
> Now " test" is grey and I cannot place anything inside..
> I didn't see this at first sight and I've placed important emails in it, that it didin't synch... and which which seems to be lost :-(
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> a Repair didn't work out
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> How can I " revalidate " this folder ? without removing it ? ( hoping to get something in it )
> Thanks
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Hi!

A maildir folder is not recognized as one if it does not contain cur,new and tmp directories. Make sure those exist.

Aki


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