Some idiot made an illegal folder name in mail.app on our server...

Hi.
Some one in our office accidently created some mail folders on our OSX 10.9 server that contains illegal characters.
And now we can't remove/change/rename/move or do anything with them.
The log says thing like
2014-01-10 18:17:13,045 Mail[1049]: Failed to decode the IMAP mailbox name VV13 342 S Boden  Vittja&Awg-rv resturang
6 530 x 2 050 bredd * h&APY-jd mm (BxH)
VV13 342 S Boden S Vittja&Awg-rv resturang
Mail.app says:
IMAP-kommandot ”DELETE” failes with server error: Error in IMAP command DELETE: Missing '"'.
Example of one of the folder names:
VV13 342 S Boden  Vittja&Awg-rv resturang
6 530 x 2 050 bredd * h&APY-jd mm (BxH)
VV13 342 S Boden S Vittja&Awg-rv resturang
I have no ide how they managed to create it since it should be impossibe. But they did 3 folder with this type of names.. How the heck do I remove them? I would need to find the folder in terminal and then remove it manually. But I cant figure out how to identify the folder in OSX server 10.9.
any ideas?
thanks

Get your mailstore path with
sudo serveradmin settings mail:imap:partition-default
You can go ahead and remove or rename the bad folders.. it won't bother dovecot at all.
Note:
All imap start with a dot "." , so they are invisible normally.
Subfodlers are separeted with a dot, so you might have
.2014
.2014.Dec
.2014.Nov
In this case, 2014 is a folder, then Dec and Nov are subfolders.
If you rename the folder, make sure it starts with a dot.
Jeff

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