Weird folder under /home/user/imap/domain/

[MvdP]

Hi all,

I am having a weird situation in one of my customers accounts.

under the folder /home/user/imap/domain/ are normally a couple of sub folders with the pop/imap boxes created for that account.

For one of the accounts on my server however there are 1810 subfolders... all with some random naming like: Zindy, Wilson, Will, Wes, etc, etc...

Does anyone has any idea why this has occurred and what I can do about it?

Thanks in advance!

 

[turnersloane]

Actually, it's nothing to be concerned about - I had the same thing happen. If the user has selected that all spam go to the specified users' folder, apparently DA will create that folder if it doesn't exist. So check your clients' email accounts & aliases, then you can delete the folders that don't match. And change the setting to just delete the spam.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

If you update to 1.40.0, it will prevent that issue:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1255

Note, that you'll need to trigger a rewrite of the template, so just make a change to your SPAM Filters, then undo the change.

Also related, but not required after the update:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=156

John

 

[MvdP]

Hi,

Thanks for the answers... I have followed the directions, now let's see if they help.

Only thing is that all the folders are still left on the server. Is there an easy easy way to delete all bogus folders in one time?

Thanks again.

 

[zEitEr]

You can delete them from a console, you can connect to your server with SSH-client and remove them.

 

[MvdP]

Hehe yeah I understand that zEitEr

But there are about 2000 folders inside the folder... and about 6 of them have to be saved.... I do not want to type rm folder for around 1994 times.

 

[zEitEr]

Remove from an output of

ls -1  /home/user/imap/domain.com/

those lines which present in a list of /etc/virtual/domain.com/passwd manually or with a script.

 

[MvdP]

Cool!

I will give that a try... thanks a lot!