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I am using cyrus imapd on Fedora

The mailbox of a user is presenting a deep tree of nested INBOXes:

user.foo
user.foo.Apple Mail To Do
user.foo.Archives
user.foo.Archives.2011
user.foo.Deleted Messages
user.foo.Drafts
user.foo.INBOX.Deleted Messages
user.foo.INBOX.INBOX.Deleted Messages
user.foo.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Deleted Messages
user.foo.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Deleted Messages
user.foo.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Deleted Messages
user.foo.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Deleted Messages
user.foo.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Deleted Messages
user.foo.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Deleted Messages
user.foo.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Deleted Messages
[...]

If I delete the folder and reconstruct the mailbox the folders are re-created

/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -r -f user.foo

all other users are OK

Any hint on why this structure is created?

Matteo
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It seems to be some kind of bug. Which version of cyrus imap you are using?

As a quick fix, I think following should work.

Using cyradm delete those rogue mailboxes.

You can find how to use cyradm here.

localhost> sam user.foo.INBOX.* cyrus d
localhost> dm user.foo.INBOX.*
Sachin Divekar
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