The bug can be closed. The reason turned out to rooted in mailboxes.db, where tabs need to be replaced by spaces. Probably that was caused by export+import of mailboxes.db with buggy ctl_mboxlist.
See also: > http://www.mail-archive.com/cyrus-devel@lists.andrew.cmu.edu/msg00305.html > http://asg.andrew.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=54338 -- With best regards, Dmitry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org