[Dovecot] IMAP creates .userid directory even after pop.

[Jorgen Lundman]

We are currently running dovecot-1.0.10 on Solaris 10 x86.

Several users has noticed that they get different emails when using pop 
vs using IMAP. When I check a user's home directory, I find the 
following situation:

/nfs/mail/1/1/hiro.11/mail/:
drwx------   6 176785   1000         512 Mar 21 07:53 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 176785   1000         512 Feb 29 17:01 ..
drwx------   5 176785   1000         512 Feb 19 12:52 .hiro_11_c7
drwx------   2 176785   1000        8192 Mar 21 07:53 cur
-rw-------   1 176785   1000        1445 Mar 21 07:53 dovecot-uidlist
-rw-------   1 176785   1000         144 Mar 21 07:53 dovecot.index
-rw-------   1 176785   1000       57344 Mar 21 07:53 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-------   1 176785   1000       66424 Mar 21 07:53 dovecot.index.log
drwx------   2 176785   1000        7680 Mar 21 10:34 new
drwx------   2 176785   1000        1536 Mar 21 10:34 tmp

/nfs/mail/1/1/hiro.11/mail/.hiro_11_c7/:
drwx------   5 176785   1000         512 Feb 19 12:52 .
drwx------   6 176785   1000         512 Mar 21 07:53 ..
drwx------   2 176785   1000         512 Feb 19 12:52 cur
-rw-------   1 176785   1000        1037 Feb 19 12:52 dovecot-uidlist
-rw-------   1 176785   1000         120 Feb 19 12:52 dovecot.index
-rw-------   1 176785   1000          24 Feb 19 12:52 dovecot.index.log
-rw-------   1 176785   1000           0 Feb 19 12:52 maildirfolder
drwx------   2 176785   1000        1536 Feb 19 12:52 new
drwx------   2 176785   1000        1536 Feb 19 12:52 tmp

I suspect that is less than ideal. What exactly is creating these 
folders, and how do we stop it? I can clean it up ok (which I'd rather 
do as one maintenance) but only once I know it wont happen again.

Should also mention that we have a mbox convert script running for a 
couple of months, to convert their old mail. Then it will be removed:

convert_mail = 
mbox:/export/mbox/migrate/%u:INBOX=/export/mbox/migrate/%u/%u:INDEX=Maildir:%h/mail/

Should also mention, one server in the cluster was incorrectly running 
version dovecot-1.0.2 (boy was that fun to track down).

Lund


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