I noticed an odd problem lately of one account going over quota by nearly 20%. There are the cur, new and tmp directories for the maildir as well as a .sent-mail, .Drafts and ".Other messages" (without the quotes) folders. The first two folders (.sent-mail and .Drafts) were created with maildirmake, and the ".Other messages" folder was created by courier-imap (by the user). They all appear to be bona fide maildir folders.

When I check the directory sizes by hand, maildirsize is the sum of all of the directories except for ".Other messages". If I remove maildirsize to force a recalculation, it produces the same total (i.e., excluding .Other messages).

I looked through some of the postings on this list and did a google search, but I did not find any quota questions like this. The obvious feature is that the folder name has a space in it, but removing the space did not seem to have an effect. All of the permissions on the files and directories allow access. .Other messages has a cur, new, and tmp directory. It also has a maildirfolder file. It looks like the others.

Does anyone have any suggestions for something else to check? I am baffled. I am running courier-imap 1.7.0.20030301 and maildrop-1.5.2. The same problem occurs with courier-imap-1.5.1.20020728 and maildrop-1.4.0. Thanks for any pointers.