When someone deletes a folder or moves a folder to their local hard disk (which should delete it on the server), the directory still existing on the cyrus server eventhough there is no longer a reference to it in the cyrus databases (mailboxes.db). All of the messages (and cyrus.* files) are removed too, but the directory remains. Is there a reason for this or is it a bug or an email client issue?
I'm running Cyrus IMAP 2.2.8 on Solaris 9 (SPARC). Users typically have Netscape 7.x, Mozilla 1.x or Thunderbird 0.5 (or higher) as their email client.
This is because all versions of Cyrus prior to 2.3 chdir() into the mailbox directory when it is SELECTed by the client and some OSs won't remove a directory when a process is in it. In 2.3 the chdir() has been removed, mainly because the meta-data files can now be split into separate directories.
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