mailboxes.db vs IMAP client irregularities

[Stephen Ingram]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 09:51:38AM -0700, Stephen Ingram wrote:
>> I'm running 2.4.13 from the invoca rpms on CentOS 5.8. I recently had
>
> Could be sort order bugs with 2.4.13 if you don't have
> improved_mboxlist_sort turned on.
>
>> I've dumped the mailboxes.db file to a flat file to look and see if
>> there is anything in there that wasn't visible in cyradm or using
>> cyr_dbtool show. Everything is as expected except there are some
>> DELETED.user.xxx.folder entries at the top. Are you not allowed the
>> create folders with the same name you've just deleted? Where are these
>> DELETED folders actually stored and how long does it take them to go
>> away? (I'm not using delayed expunge.)
>
> Do you have folder names like:
>
> user.xxx
> user.xxx.fol der
> user.xxx.fol.stuff
>
> rather than:
>
> user.xxx
> user.xxx.fol.stuff
> user.xxx.fol der
>
> A fix is to upgrade to a new version of 2.4.x.

Are you saying that the sort order could be wrong or that the
incorrect sort order could be causing the other issues I'm seeing?

Should I just remove those DELETED folder entries? They don't seem to
exist anywhere in the file system.

With your mention of bugs though, I went through the bugs fixed from
2.14-2.16 and I see bug 2685. That sort of sounds like what I'm
experiencing. It sounds like I should upgrade before spending too much
more time on this.

Steve