[Dovecot] OS X Mail.app 2 (Tiger) + dovecot -> new mail count doubled

[Jim Tittsler]

On Jul 14, 2005, at 19:49, Xavier Beaudouin wrote:

> Le 8 juil. 05 à 10:05, Xavier Beaudouin a écrit :
>>
>> Le 8 juil. 05 à 09:41, Alan Schmitt a écrit :
>>> I've noticed a strange bug with Mail.app 2 (from OS X.4) and  
>>> dovecot, and I'm trying to identify where it comes from. I have a  
>>> bunch of mailboxes that can receive new mail (delivered by  
>>> procmail) and I have Mail set up as to automatically synchronize  
>>> all maiboxes. When I start up Mail, the count for new mail is  
>>> doubled in every mailbox that I have not seen yet. Looking at a  
>>> mailbox restores the correct count (mail is not actually  
>>> duplicated, it's just the new mail counter that is wrong).
>>
>> I suspect this is Mail.app 2. Because I have same bug using  
>> courier-imap...
>>
>
> Seems that this have been fixed on latest update for Tiger.
>
> Mail.app 2.0.2 (732/733) now show corrects numbers of new mail in  
> folders for me since yesterday after my upgrade...
> So if you are not using 10.4.2, then for this cosmetic problem :)

Interesting.  I had never seen this behavior *until* I updated to  
Mail.app 2.0.2... and *now* I have the doubled new message counts in  
folders until I open them.  (It doesn't seem to be Dovecot related,  
because it is happening with both 1.0-stable and the Novell  
MyRealBox.com servers.)


-- 
Jim Tittsler     http://www.OnJapan.net/      GPG: 0x01159DB6
Python Starship  http://Starship.Python.net/crew/jwt/
Mailman IRC      irc://irc.freenode.net/#mailman