Bug in renaming folder hierarchies - any reaction ?
Klaus Steinberger
klaus.steinberger at Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE
Tue Mar 2 21:35:16 EET 2021
Hi,
no comments on this? This is definitly with two different IMAP Clients
reproducible.
This led already to some message loss in user Mailboxes.
> we discovered a major problem with renaming folders with subfolders
>
> testszenario:
>
> folders:
>
> test1
> test1/test1-1
> test1/test1-2
>
> all 3 folders contain a test message
>
> after renaming the top level folder test1 to test2 following folders exist:
>
> test2
> test2/test1-1
> test2/test1-2
>
> the subfolders test1-1 and test1-2 are empty, the top level folder contains the
> correct message.
>
>
> Now renmaing test2 back to test1:
>
> Alle folders again contain their messages.
>
> So this looks like during renaming the top level folder just the message
> references for the subfolders got lost, and with renaming back they are there again.
>
> I can reproduce this behavior both with thunderbird and Horde Webmail as a
> client, also it happens with a second different dovecot setup
>
Sincerly,
Klaus Steinberger
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