Bug in renaming folder hierarchies - any reaction ?

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Wed Mar 3 13:19:46 EET 2021


Hi,

this might be caused by FULLDIRNAME=DbOx-mAiLs (as far fetched as it sounds). Would it be possible for you to try it out if it happens if you remove this setting?

Aki

> On 02/03/2021 21:35 Klaus Steinberger <klaus.steinberger at physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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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