[Dovecot] Missing mails after folder renaming

[Bob von Knobloch]

alan premselaar schrieb:
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> Bob,
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>  if both directories still exist on your server but Thunderbird is only
> seeing one of them, the first thing I could suggest is checking your
> folder subscriptions (in thunderbird) ... it's very likely that the
> folder is being seen by thunderbird but just not displayed because it
> thinks it's not subscribed.
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> having said that, if you're going to have folders with spaces in them
> then you'll want to escape the space in your procmail rules. so, as an
> example if your folder is named ".Computer Science" then in your
> procmail rule you'll want to refer to it as ".Computer\ Science"
> (without the quotes. although you could probably just put the whole
> directory name in quotes and not have to escape the space directly)
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> That's all basics of the *nix special character escaping scheme and
> should be the same regardless of shell or application.
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> Sorry, I can't offer any information related to the pathname lenghts and
> NT/samba.
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> hope this helps.
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> Alan
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Thanks Alan,
I wasn't sure if procmail followed the standard *nix quoting system 
(other parts of the syntax seem to be a bit special), but now I know, I 
can make the changes I really want.
You are right, of course, Thunderbird had not got entries for these 
folders as being 'subscribed'.
I have regained my mails after experimenting (had done the file moving 
as 'root' and got wrong permissions - will I never learn?).
Still have the windows pathlength problem, though. If anybody has an 
answer, I'd appreciate it.

Bob