[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0.beta9, emails disappearing?

[Marc Perkel]

Interestingly someone just asked me about emails vanishing and I'm 
running rc7 .... ?

Joseph W. Breu wrote:
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> I have received reports from my users of this happening as well.  In 
> each case we have not been able to determine the source of the issue.  
> We are currently running 1.0 RC2
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> Quoting Martin Végiard <deadbug at gmail.com>:
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>> Hi,
>> I've been using Dovecot successfully for a while and I've recently
>> encountered an issue :
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>> I got to work today and half the emails, were deleted... and after
>> careful investigation :
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>> - On Monday it seems, the emails magically vanished .. (what I've 
>> been told)
>> - My backup from Tuesday morning at 3am, indicates that all the files
>> (mailbox) are intact but the subscription file is missing half the
>> entries.
>> - At noon, on Tuesday, half the subscriptions are still missing and
>> half the files now also missing.
>>
>> Any ideas, known issues, suggestions?
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>> Details :
>> # dovecot --version
>> 1.0.beta9
>> # uname -a
>> NetBSD Z 3.0.1 NetBSD 3.0.1 (GENERIC.MPACPI) #0: Fri Aug 18 08:34:05
>> EDT 2006  m at Z:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MPACPI i386
>>
>> the server in question is usually just idling away...
>> and nothing abnormal in my logs
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>>
>> thanks for your time,
>> Martin
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> Thanks,
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