INBOX folders disappeared after upgrading

[John Stoffel]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave  <dave at techhosts.com> writes:

Dave> On Thu, April 16, 2020 2:33 pm, John Stoffel wrote:
>> Makes sense.  I'm not a dovecot expert, but in terms of RHEL, have you
>> checkd that the yum update didn't change file permissions, or enable
>> selinux or do something like that?

Dave> old (before upgrade) dir was like this (from backup):

I think your dovecot config has changed in some manner.  Can you share
the output of 'dovecot -n' please?

Dave> drwx------  2 dave dave  245760 Mar 10 16:56 cur
Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave   48744 Mar  9 14:48 dovecot.index
Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave 1920452 Mar  2 06:49 dovecot.index.cache
Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave    1808 Mar 10 17:01 dovecot.index.log
Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave   32792 Mar  9 14:48 dovecot.index.log.2
Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave     450 Sep 15  2017 dovecot.index.thread
Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave    3192 Aug 26  2019 dovecot.mailbox.log
Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave  206829 Mar 10 16:56 dovecot-uidlist
Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave       8 May  7  2019 dovecot-uidvalidity
Dave> -r--r--r--  1 dave dave       0 Nov 14  2016 dovecot-uidvalidity.582a69fb
Dave> -r--r--r--  1 dave dave       0 Nov 14  2016 dovecot-uidvalidity.582a6a01
Dave> drwxrwxr-x  5 dave dave     167 Aug 28  2019 .DRAFTS
Dave> drwxrwxr-x 33 dave dave    4096 Mar  2  2019 .INBOX
Dave> drwx------  2 dave dave    4096 Mar 10 16:56 new
Dave> drwxrwxr-x  5 dave dave     192 Dec 21 14:33 .SENT
Dave> drwxrwxr-x  5 dave dave     192 Feb 12 16:04 .SPAM
Dave> -rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave     728 Aug 26  2019 subscriptions
Dave> drwx------  2 dave dave      10 Mar 10 18:17 tmp
Dave> drwxrwxr-x 14 dave dave     320 Sep 11  2019 .TRASH

Dave> new dir is now like so (maybe this gives some clues to someone,
Dave> altho I assume the dovecot guys would understand the changes
Dave> that have been made - I tried to dig thru changelogs to some
Dave> level):

I suspect it's a config change that was put in place by the RHEL
upgrade, which is why you need to provide the 'dovecot -n' output.

Dave> drwx------.  2 dave dave  221184 Apr 17 02:28 cur
Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave   80008 Apr 16 13:33 dovecot.index
Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave 2113444 Apr 16 13:30 dovecot.index.cache
Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave   29992 Apr 17 02:34 dovecot.index.log
Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave     450 Sep 15  2017 dovecot.index.thread
Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave    3192 Aug 26  2019 dovecot.mailbox.log
Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave  227210 Apr 17 02:28 dovecot-uidlist
Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave       8 Mar 28 09:31 dovecot-uidvalidity
Dave> -r--r--r--.  1 dave dave       0 Nov 14  2016 dovecot-uidvalidity.582a6a04
Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Mar 28 09:31 DRAFTS
Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Aug 28  2019 .DRAFTS
Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 32 dave dave    4096 Mar  2  2019 .INBOX
Dave> drwx------.  2 dave dave    4096 Apr 20 18:13 new
Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Mar 28 09:31 SENT
Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Apr 15 19:21 .SENT
Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Mar 17 13:22 .SPAM
Dave> -rw-rw-r--.  1 dave dave     728 Aug 26  2019 subscriptions
Dave> drwx------.  2 dave dave       6 Apr 20 18:13 tmp
Dave> drwxrwxr-x.  5 dave dave    4096 Mar 28 09:31 TRASH
Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 14 dave dave    4096 Sep 11  2019 .TRASH

Dave> no config changes were done, just binary updates.. I compared configs
Dave> against the backup to check

How did you compare them?  

>> Can you see the mail using none IMAP based tools?  What do the dovecot
>> and postfix logs show?  And what about squirrelmail?  Check all your
>> logs for permissions issues.

Dave> I put the old subscriptions file back and do (pure dovecot at this point):

Dave> [dave at vm1 ~]$ doveadm mailbox list
Dave> SENT
Dave> TRASH
Dave> DRAFTS
Dave> SPAM
Dave> INBOX

Dave> (SPAM was an old folder I had created many years back, other than it,
Dave> everything had been created as folders under INBOX)

Dave> subscriptions (snippet)

Dave> SENT
Dave> TRASH
Dave> DRAFTS
Dave> INBOX/Facebook
Dave> SPAM
Dave> INBOX/Amazon
Dave> INBOX/Linkedin
Dave> INBOX/bills
Dave> INBOX/ADT
Dave> INBOX/food
Dave> INBOX/money
Dave> INBOX/art
Dave> INBOX/pets
Dave> ........

>> doveadm log errors

Dave> alot of errs related to the previous folders that used to work

Dave> Apr 07 15:21:43 Warning: imap(dave): Subscriptions file
Dave> /home/davej/Maildir/subscriptions: Removing invalid entry: INBOX/property
Dave> Apr 15 14:55:39 Warning: imap(dave): Subscriptions file
Dave> /home/dave/Maildir/subscriptions: Removing invalid entry: INBOX/Facebook

This smells funky, are there any *other* errors or warnings in the log
file other than these types of messages?

John