I've had this strange issue for some time now and I'm not sure whether this is 
a 
Postfix, Courier-IMAP issue, or just one with my mail client.

The symptom is that under my Inbox are numerous Inbox subdirectories.
When I look on the server under my /home/user/Maildir, there is a directory:

INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.I
NBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Junk (NPC)

Under /home/user/Maildir/courierimaphieracl, there are the following files:

INBOX
INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.IN
BOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.IN
BOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.IN
BOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.IN
BOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.IN
BOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.IN
BOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.IN
BOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX

Then in /home/user/Maildir/courierimapsubscribed, there is a line:

INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.IN
BOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Junk (NPC)

Now I have deleted all these entries and the subdirectories disappear from my 
email client. But after a while they will all reappear.

Now, on my computer I see that there are subdirectories of Inbox. I have 
deleted 
them as well, after having deleted the aforementioned, but nonetheless all 
these 
subdirectories reappeared. There is no other email client accessing my email.

Any ideas about why this is happening?

NB. Server: FreeBSD 6.2, Postfix 2.5.4, Courier-Imap 4.4.1 (so it seems). Mail 
Client is Mac OSX Mail 3.4



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