I thought that Dovecot was supposed to handle that kind of thing? Reading from the website:

"Any kind of crash is considered as bug and will be fixed - even

if it happens only by deliberately poking the index files."

I've done it in the past by just creating the bare folders - they appear in the IMAP folder list then when they're used Dovecot seems to create the sub folders anyway.

The issue I'm asking about here is, should the error message say "Internal Error [date time]" rather than something useful?

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-----Original Message----- From: Keith Edmunds [mailto:keith@midnighthax.com] Sent: 20 August 2004 12:42 To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Unusual behaviour

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:26:44 +0100 "Mark Lidstone" mlidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk wrote:

I've just noticed something strange in dovecot 0.99.10.5. I created some IMAP folders from the command line (mkdir .INBOX.Folder1)

No: you created a directory. IMAP folders need cur/ tmp/ and new/ as subdirectories under the new folder directory.

Keith

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