[Dovecot] Emails corrupted...

[Jean-Francois]

Jean-François Guyet wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just setup a Dovecot Imap server on a Ubuntu 6.06 Lamp box.
> Basically I use fetchmail to retrieve emails from foregin pop accounts and then
> procmail transfers emails for /var/mail/username to ~/Maildir/new and other
> folders.
>
> Everything works fine *except* if my Thunderbird client is connected (I haven't
> tried any other client).
>
> If an email is received while TB is connected, then the file for the email is
> empty (eg size 0) leading to an empty email dated 1/jan/1970!.
>   
Hi Folks,

I could finally fix my problem. It was due to incorrect procmail
configuration.
It was delivering emails to ~/Maildir/new instead of ~/Maildir/

See http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-July/014903.html and
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir

Cheers
Jean-François