[Dovecot] dovecot and thunderbird

[Mark Davies]

On Sunday 18 June 2006 09:39, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > When using thunderbird as the imap client sometimes when messages are
> > moved from the inbox to other folders (including Trash) they shortly
> > thereafter reappear in the inbox - this can happen multiple times to the
> > same message.

> Could you verify if this still happens with beta9? It sounds like either
> the deleted-flag doesn't get written to the mbox or the expunge command
> for some reason doesn't remove the messages.

Unfortunately I can't check this any more.  I'm not a thunderbird user myself 
so only had the reports of our thunderbird users to go on and since I sent 
that original message we've converted so that users inbox's are also Maildir 
so they no longer have the problem.

> Since you use NFS, do the users randomly move around in different
> servers? Does Thunderbird open multiple connections to the same mailbox
> which might be transferred to different computers?

No users would have always been accessing their mail from the dovecot server 
accessing (for any given user) one NFS server.  Original mail delivery 
however happened on a separate computer (from the dovecot one) accessing that 
same NFS server.  However that should have been protected by appropriate 
dotlocking.

cheers
mark