[Dovecot] New Dovecot installation and OE not POPing problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:31 -0600, techlist06 wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> Recently I converted my mailserver to Postfix with some local accounts being
> accessed via Dovecot and POP3S.
> 
> The clients are OE.  The users are reporting that they aren't getting their
> messages.  In the past with my old (IW?) POP server, I just used mail -f
> /var/spool/user and deleted the "DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE...." message #1
> and this cleared any problems with messages being out of sync on what had
> and had not been downloaded, etc.
> 
> With Dovecot, I don't know how to "bump" the mailbox to get it "reset" so
> that OE will download the messages again, and/or get them if it hasn't
> already.  Is this possible?

Hmm. Why is/was it happening at all?

But you can do the same with Dovecot. Delete the "DO NOT DELETE .."
message, but also delete Dovecot's index files (~/mail/.imap/INBOX
probably).

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