directories not deleted when folder is

[David Carter]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Phil Chambers wrote:

> When I deleted the 1581 accounts I was calling the perl deletemailbox() 
> function in Cyrus::IMAP::Admin.  For each account I was just specifying 
> "user.account" as the argument (having set up an acl to give me 'c' 
> rights first).  For 1570 of them it deleted the whole structure, 
> subsidiary folders included.

I suspect that the 11 users in question managed to create an orphaned 
directory in the filesystem, either by:

> > This happens when you delete a mailbox which has subsidiary mailboxes 
> > and then later come back and delete the subsidiary mailboxes.

or by creating a mailbox a few levels down in the hierarchy. This can 
leave directories in the filesystem which aren't accounted for by the 
mboxlist. e.g: user.dpc22.foo.bar would leave a stray directory "foo".

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