How to reproduce the weird phantom shared folders issue (._-blah@blah.blah)

I have the known issue of the weird phantom shared folders in /var/spool/imap/ with filenames like "^_-blah" that show up as folders with names like "._-blah". I have only 2 folders like this and haven't had new ones show up since July 14th.
I've read the old threads on this and would like to try implementing the fixes, however I need to be able to reproduce the folder creation in order to test the success of a potential fix. And I cannot figure out how to reproduce it. I have tried sending mail to ".[email protected]" and/or mail from (and Reply-To) ".[email protected]" via command-line sendmail (postfix) on my Mac laptop on the local network of the server. No combination of those seem to result in a new file in /var/spool/imap/
1. How can I reproduce this issue? I confirmed that I've not installed any Software Updates between Jun 14th and now (to make sure it's not that it was patched with some update that I installed).
2. What is the appropriate way to delete these (after I confirm reproducibility, apply a fix, and confirm subsequent non-reproducibility)?
Thanks!

This might help...
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7809674#7809674

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