>> I have already deleted the local cache files from the TBird profile, 
>> so there is something wrong on the server side.

> I'm confident that there's nothing wrong on the server side.

Well, maybe you'll not be quite so confident when I tell you that doing
an ls -al of the .Trash/cur directory does something similar - nothing
is returned, and the cursor just sits there blinking happily - I have to
just quit that putty session. Tailing /var/log/messages and monitoring
the system with top when doing this shows no unusual load on the server,
and the logs show my bash session closing when I quit Putty...

Here is an ls -al of the .Trash directory:

gondor .Trash # ls -al
total 47960
drwx------   6 postfix postfix      256 Jul 17 07:08 .
drwx------ 116 postfix postfix     4192 Jul 17 14:27 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 postfix postfix       17 Oct 31  2005 courierimapacl
drwx------   2 postfix postfix       72 Jul 17 07:08 courierimapkeywords
-rw-r--r--   1 postfix postfix  7603094 Jul 17 07:08 courierimapuiddb
drwx------   2 postfix postfix  9100472 Jul 17 12:40 cur
-rw-------   1 postfix postfix        0 Oct 31  2005 maildirfolder
drwx------   2 postfix postfix       48 Oct 31  2005 new
drwx------   2 postfix postfix 32388568 Jul 17 12:04 tmp

> That's fine, but it won't be much of a help if your IMAP client is
> confused.

I really don't thyink this is a client issue...

Why wouldn't just deleting the local Trash folder and letting it re-sync
from the server be enough? How/where else could its confusion lie? I
also tried deleting *all* of the local files and let TBird re-download
everything... took awhile (2-3GB of mail, @75,000 messages), but same
problem...

> After removing and recreating the Trash folder, you should then drop
> and reconfigure the IMAP mail account, in Thunderbird.

Ok, to test your theory, I tried accessing it from my computer at home
this evening (same account setup, but I haven't accessed this account
for over a week on that box, so the same as recreating the account
config for this purpose)... same result - TBird went into never-never land.

If no one has any other ideas, I guess I have no choice but to
delete/recreate the maildir - but before I do, I would like to get
specific confirmation of the commands I posted earlier to simply delete
then recreate the Trash folder... as I said, Idon't have much experience
doing this, and would prefer to not make matters worse because of a dumb
mistake.

Thanks Sam,

Simon


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