On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Phil Chambers wrote: > I have discovered that directories are often being left in the file > system when a user deletes the corresponding folder. cyrus.header, > cyrus.index and cyrus.cache and all message files are removed, but not > the directory for the folder itself.
This happens when you delete a mailbox which has subsiduary mailboxes and then later come back and delete the subsiduary mailboxes. > I can't say what percentage of the time this happens when users delete > using there e-mail client but I have just deleted 1581 user accounts > using a perl script which uses deletemailbox(). Of the 1581 the > directories remained for 11. In fact, the whole directory structures > remained for each user with all the files removed. Maybe a consequence of the order in which the mailboxes were listed? -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service, Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
