[Dovecot] Dovecot reports zero messages erroneously

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 09:36 -0700, Chris Spiegel wrote:
> On October 11, Mark Farmer reported a problem about not being able to see new 
> mails.  I'm running into the same issue.  Even though cur/ and new/ contain 
> messages, Dovecot reports that there aren't any.
> 
> This problem seemed to start happening in alpha3 (and persists in alpha4).  
> When I revert back to alpha2, the messages show up again.

Probably because alpha3 contains this change:

	* src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-sync.c: We were forcing a
	  maildir resync when it hadn't changed at all.

> It looks like a problem with the dovecot.index* files.  When I delete them, 
> alpha4 can serve up the mails just fine, and will in fact keep working for a 
> little while.  Eventually (within a few hours, although I'm not sure what 
> causes it), dovecot thinks things are empty again.

What about if you do "touch Maildir/new", does it then see the new
mails?

What filesystem do you use?

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