Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents  are read correctly.

Closes #13254.
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@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@
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+- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
+  are read correctly.
+
 - Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
 
 - Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.