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.
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.
These accounts could not have been in use because the passwd entries for them were removed a few weeks ago and imap authentication could not have worked.
Any ideas?
This can happen if the mailbox is open when the client tries to delete it because the Cyrus code does a chdir() to the mailbox directory when opening it. Some OS don't like doing a rmdir() when the process is in the directory.
This is fixed in the 2.3 code, mainly because the mailbox metadata files can be split outside of the mailbox directory, so doing a chdir() doesn't make much sense in this case.
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