Hi,
  I mounted my XFS filesystem "maildirs" directory from my samba 3.0.23 
server using mount.cifs from samba-client 3.0.23. I am using Qmail-LDAP 
as the MTA. I am using Courier IMAP "courier-imap-4.1.1-1.5", which I 
built using rpmbuild -ta, as the IMAP server. Linux distribution version 
is Fedora Core 5.


Filesystem mounted as:

//fileserver/maildirs on /maildirs type cifs (rw,mand)


  Qmail delivers mail to the mounted filesystem no problems at all:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] maildirs]# find jacksonm/
jacksonm/
jacksonm/Maildir
jacksonm/Maildir/Maildir
jacksonm/Maildir/Maildir/cur
jacksonm/Maildir/Maildir/new
jacksonm/Maildir/Maildir/new/1153327761.4588.imap,S=786
jacksonm/Maildir/Maildir/tmp


  Checking the mailbox with Courier causes filesystem corruption (wrong 
hard link count, and truncation of the message filename):

[EMAIL PROTECTED] maildirs]# find jacksonm/
jacksonm/
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for jacksonm/: this may be a bug 
in your filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf 
option.  Earlier results may have failed to include directories that 
should have been searched.
jacksonm/Maildir
jacksonm/Maildir/cur
jacksonm/Maildir/cur/15HB1W~B
jacksonm/Maildir/new
jacksonm/Maildir/tmp
jacksonm/Maildir/.Trash
jacksonm/Maildir/.Trash/tmp
jacksonm/Maildir/.Trash/new
jacksonm/Maildir/.Trash/cur
jacksonm/Maildir/.Trash/maildirfolder
jacksonm/Maildir/.Trash/courierimapacl
jacksonm/Maildir/.Trash/courierimapuiddb
jacksonm/Maildir/.Trash/courierimapkeywords
jacksonm/Maildir/courierimapsubscribed
jacksonm/Maildir/courierimapkeywords
jacksonm/Maildir/courierimapuiddb


  As well, the message shows up as new in Thunderbird 1.0.7 every time I 
change into the Inbox folder, although it gets moved to the "cur" folder 
after reading it the first time.

  Are these known bugs? Are they bugs in Samba or Courier IMAP? Any 
advice on how to proceed to resolution?


Thanks,
Mike

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