Deleted folders still exist in filesystem

[Ken Murchison]

Shawn Sivy wrote:
> When someone deletes a folder or moves a folder to their local hard disk 
> (which should delete it on the server), the directory still existing on 
> the cyrus server eventhough there is no longer a reference to it in the 
> cyrus databases (mailboxes.db).  All of the messages (and cyrus.* files) 
> are removed too, but the directory remains.  Is there a reason for this 
> or is it a bug or an email client issue?
> 
> I'm running Cyrus IMAP 2.2.8 on Solaris 9 (SPARC).  Users typically have 
> Netscape 7.x, Mozilla 1.x or Thunderbird 0.5 (or higher) as their email 
> client.

This is because all versions of Cyrus prior to 2.3 chdir() into the 
mailbox directory when it is SELECTed by the client and some OSs won't 
remove a directory when a process is in it.  In 2.3 the chdir() has been 
removed, mainly because the meta-data files can now be split into 
separate directories.

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