How can this happen?

[Frank Elsner]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:12:33 -0800 (PST) Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Frank Elsner wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > we have the strange situation with our murder environment that
> >
> > mailbackend has
> >
> > user.xxxxx.Sent        2 default xxxxx	lrswipkxtecda
> >
> > but the folder is non-existent in the filesystem.
> >
> > The mupdate server doesn't know this folder (not in mailboxes.db)
> >
> > How can this happen?
> 
> Some bug in Cyrus?

Don't know.

> If you want to fix this, you can try creating the proper structure on the 
> filesystem, run reconstruct to get Cyrus to sync back up with it, then 
> delete the folder using cyradm or an IMAP client.

I didn't ask for a fix. I ask for a possible reason.
We cleaned the situation by removing the entry from the mailboxes.db 
on the mailbackend using cyr_dbtool.


--Frank Elsner