[Dovecot] Outlook express confusion

[Andrew Hutchings]

Hi Timo,
Nada in the log file.  Messages were expunged within a minute of getting
deleted.
My boss says after expunging he mainly got blank messages where the
deleted ones were, no subject, from, or anything and message unreadable
when read (I don't have OE here so can't verify), but someone else in
the office had the same problem and said that a customer did as well.  I
will setup a test bed over the weekend to try and duplicate/trace it.  I
was thinking it might be related to that work around but I can't give
any more info just as yet.
Forgot to mention it is using Maildir, LVS -> 2 dovecot servers -> 1 nfs
server, indexes stored locally, IMAP on LVS is set to persistent
connections.
Test 60 works fine though with this.

BTW.
Just applied your new message-address.c patch to test 60 (as well as the
one from Mar 24) and got 'Full Name at UNKNOWN DOMAIN' in OE when address
is '"Full Name" user at domain.com'.  I probably missed another patch
somewhere in my haste to get this going though :)

Regards
Andrew

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:27 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:23 +0100, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
> > This may be a problem with my config file but I am finding that
> > customers (and more importantly my boss) that are using outlook express
> > when using test66/67 (upgraded from test60 + from address patch) are
> > having message reappear after being fully deleted (not just marked) but
> > are unreadable, sometimes blank headers appear too but again no message.
> 
> Hmm. And nothing in log file? Were the messages expunged recently (less
> than an hour ago) or did some older messages also appear? Only
> OE-related thing that I can think of is this change:
> 
> 2005-03-14 21:17  Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> 
> 	* dovecot-example.conf, src/imap/cmd-fetch.c, src/imap/common.h,
> 	  src/imap/imap-sync.c, src/imap/main.c,
> 	  src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h,
> 	  src/lib-storage/index/index-sync.c: Renamed oe6-fetch-no-newmail
> 	  workaround to delay-newmail and changed it to work more like the
> 	  name says: only newmail notifications are skipped and not only
> 	  for FETCH command.
> 
> But that shouldn't be making expunged mails visible.. Nothing should
> actually. Unless new messages are getting UIDs from old mails (there
> is/was a bug like that with mbox, but not maildir AFAIK).
> 
> If anyone can find a way to reproduce this I'd like to know.
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