[Dovecot] duplicate emails

[Timo Sirainen]

On 3.12.2006, at 23.42, Sean Kamath wrote:

>> 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?
>
> I'm not.  I mean, that's sort of the point of imap, right? :-) :-)

Uh. I was thinking all the time that you're using pop3 since that's  
what started this thread :)

Now, you're having duplicate mails with IMAP? There's really no good  
reason for why that would happen, unless the mail is actually  
delivered to the mailbox twice, or if the client did something weird,  
such as copying the mail elsewhere (eg. Trash) and back..

> The next time I notice it, I'll confirm (again) that it's actually  
> duplicated *on the server* and *in the mail spool file* (we use mbox).

It most likely is.

>
>>> 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?
>
> Aside from sendmail and the LDA, no, nothing should be modifying  
> the mbox file.

Dovecot LDA?

>>
>> If the problem isn't disconnection, then it could be that the UIDs
>> changed, and that could be related to the above error.
>
> Gack.  rc7.  I guess I haven't upgraded in a while.  Frankly, rc7  
> has been working so well, and what with the recent spate of  
> activity, I've been waiting for things to settle down a bit -- but  
> I didn't think I was that far back.

rc9 had this fix:

         - mbox: Fixed a bug causing "X-IMAPbase uid-last  
unexpectedly lost
           in mbox file" errors, and possibly others.
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