directories not deleted when folder is

[David Carter]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Phil Chambers wrote:

> I have discovered that directories are often being left in the file 
> system when a user deletes the corresponding folder. cyrus.header, 
> cyrus.index and cyrus.cache and all message files are removed, but not 
> the directory for the folder itself.

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

> I can't say what percentage of the time this happens when users delete 
> using there e-mail client but I have just deleted 1581 user accounts 
> using a perl script which uses deletemailbox().  Of the 1581 the 
> directories remained for 11.  In fact, the whole directory structures 
> remained for each user with all the files removed.

Maybe a consequence of the order in which the mailboxes were listed?

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