Problems with dots in subboxes

[Paul van der Vlis]

Op 23-01-12 22:49, Bron Gondwana schreef:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012, at 10:46 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> Op 23-01-12 22:40, Bron Gondwana schreef:
>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012, at 08:16 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> A user has a very complex IMAP box with many subboxes. He used subboxes
>>>> with names with dots and spaces in it and I use a dot as IMAP
>>>> seperation. But he did not have any problems, he said...
>>>>
>>>> But now there is a big problem. His box "overig e.d." has been renamed
>>>> to "overig e" and in it is now a box "d", and in that it's empty, all
>>>> messages are gone...
>>>>
>>>> Does somebody have an idea what can have happened?
>>>>
>>>> He is using Thunderbird a long time, but now he has Apple Mail and an
>>>> Android Phone too, to access the mailbox.
>>>
>>> Have you changed versions or configurations in that time?
>>
>> Before there was no Android Phone and Apple Mail. And Thunderbird was
>> updated (to a 3.1 version). I did not change Cyrus.
>>
>>> I'm surprised it ever worked!
>>
>> Me too,
> 
> Have you looked on disk?  Are there files in the spool at all?  

Yes, I have looked there. There are only this files in the folder:
cyrus.cache  cyrus.header  cyrus.index	cyrus.seen

> If you used
> to have unixhierarchysep: on there may be a overig e^d^ folder.

I don't have unixhierarchysep configured on this machine.

With regards,
Paul.





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