Problems with dots in subboxes

[Paul van der Vlis]

Op 23-01-12 23:39, Bron Gondwana schreef:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:59:52PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Backups?

I can go back only 7 days. This is longer ago.

>>> If you used
>>> to have unixhierarchysep: on there may be a overig e^d^ folder.
>>
>> I don't have unixhierarchysep configured on this machine.
> 
> I don't have a clue then sorry.

Thanks for your thoughts

With regards,
Paul.



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