[Dovecot] duplicate emails

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Dec 3 20:06:11 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 14:53 -0500, Sean Kamath wrote:
> >  - Disconnected for inactivity: This has sometimes been a bug in
> > Dovecot, but I'm not aware of any such bugs currently. It could also
> > just be a network problem.
> 
> I recently got a set of duplicate emails (including this one).  I did  
> have some connectivity problems late last night, and this I saw in  
> the log file:

And you delete mails from server after downloading?

> Dec  1 10:42:04 stove dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(kamath):  
> Disconnected for inactivity

So, possibly network problem..

> Dec  1 10:42:07 stove dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(kamath): X- 
> IMAPbase uid-last unexpectedly lost in mbox file /var/mail/kamath

But why did this happen? Is this 1.0.rc15? Is something else modifying
the mbox files also?

If the problem isn't disconnection, then it could be that the UIDs
changed, and that could be related to the above error.
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