help by recovering a mailbox - maildir and dovecot 2.2.13

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:

> an user screwd up his mailbox in such a way, that I dont see how to get
> it back in the right order.
>
> E.g. in the subcriptions file there is a folder
>
> 	Studienjahr 2014 - 2015.Pitchings
>
> in the filesystem there this folder is in trash and without spaces
> between the years:
>
> 	.Trash.Studienjahr 2014-2015.Pitchings
>
> in the Filesystem ther is no folder
>
> 	Studienjahr 2014-2015
>
> Currently he uses our sogo as email client ant there are some folders to
> showing up but some are empty, some cant be deleted ...

A client does not seem to synchronize subscription and folder operation. I 
would remove the subcriptions file und let the user subscribe anew.

If for instance subcriptions contains a mailbox, which does not exist 
physically, some versions of Thunderbird shows this mailbox, but as soon 
as you do something with it, you get a "mailbox does not exist" error. You 
can unsubscribe from the mailbox and the ghost mailboxes are gone.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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