HasChildren flag on two mailboxes with similar name

[David Carter]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Tobias Riekeberg wrote:

> I have two users, named "joe" and "joe-doe", each with subfolders
> "drafts" and "sent".
>
> [...]
>
> So the "user.joe" has the flag "\HasNochildren" instead of
> "\HasChildren". This happens whenever I have two users of which one's
> name is the first part of the other users name. Result of this seem to
> be, that I cannot access "user.joe" in Thunderbird.

Do you have improved_mboxlist_sort set?

We hit the same problem a long time back. If I recall correctly the 
problem is the order that '-' and '.' occur with a simple ASCII sort.

('-' is the only commonly used character which sorts before '.').

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