I found a way to reproduce the problem :)
Use an arbitrary mailbox (maybe my Dovecot config with mdbox etc. required). Then use Thunderbird (52.9.1 on Mac) to create eg. the following folder (without the quotes!):
"[Test / Test]"
This is a space, a slash and a space between the Test in square brackets.
TB now creates the following two folders:
- "INBOX/[Test " (not subscribed)
- "INBOX/[Test / Test]" (subscribed)
I can delete the 2. one, but the 1. one is not deletable, neither via TB nor doveadm command:
/ # doveadm mailbox status -u bb@bb-trunk.egroupware.de all 'INBOX/[Test ' doveadm(bb@bb-trunk.egroupware.de): Error: Mailbox INBOX/[Test : Failed to lookup mailbox status: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/[Test / # doveadm mailbox delete -u bb@bb-trunk.egroupware.de 'INBOX/[Test ' doveadm(bb@bb-trunk.egroupware.de): Info: Mailbox deleted: INBOX/[Test / # doveadm mailbox list -u bb@bb-trunk.egroupware.de 'INBOX/[Test ' INBOX/[Test
I can see the folder under mdbox/mailboxes and in mdbox/subscriptions.
I hope that allows you to reproduce it.
Ralf
Am 14.08.18 um 15:13 schrieb Ralf Becker:
I have a user who has several folders in his mailbox, which we can not delete, neither via IMAP nor via doveadm:
root@ka-nfs-mail:~# doveadm mailbox list -u <username> | grep hbereiche | cat -v INBOX/[Fachbereiche ^M INBOX/Fachbereiche ^M INBOX/hbereiche^M INBOX/hbereiche/LAGen]^M INBOX/hbereiche/LAG^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche/LAGen]^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche]^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche]/LAGen]^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche]/LAGe^M root@ka-nfs-mail:~# doveadm mailbox delete -u <username> 'INBOX/Fachbereiche ' doveadm(<username>): Info: Mailbox deleted: INBOX/Fachbereiche root@ka-nfs-mail:~# doveadm mailbox list -u <username>| grep hbereiche | cat -v INBOX/[Fachbereiche ^M INBOX/Fachbereiche ^M INBOX/hbereiche^M INBOX/hbereiche/LAGen]^M INBOX/hbereiche/LAG^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche/LAGen]^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche]^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche]/LAGen]^M INBOX/[Fachbereiche]/LAGe^M
As far as I tried none of these folders can be deleted (I added single quotes for trailing space and tried to delete subfolders first).
Mailbox is in mdbox format on a replication pair under Dovecot 2.2.36 and I tried both nodes of the replication with same result.
Any ideas?
Ralf
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