[Dovecot] beta8 + mbox + Thunderbird

[Thomas Hummel]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:15:15PM +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm still using beta8 (on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE). 
> 
> Recently I put a co-worker who's using Thunderbird (1.5.0.4) on it and
> he seemed to have lost some messages (which were delivered on the
> spool since seen on procmail logfile).
> 
> I switched him on another server to play safe and tried to test it
> myself but failed to reproduce the issue. I myself use mutt on a daily
> basis with no problem with that beta8.
> 
> Did someone experienced the same (I read about some similar issue on
> the list but with maildir format - I'm using mbox) ?

I forgot to say that, when this occured, I fist thought about index
corruption and did the following :

  . remove the dovecot indexes for that user on the server

  . remove *.msf files on Thunderbird (my understanding beeing that
    these are the local TB indexes).

That didn't change anything.

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Thomas Hummel 	    | Institut Pasteur
<hummel at pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau