[Dovecot] Problems fetching mail

[Curt LeCaptain]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org 
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:36 PM
> To: Curt LeCaptain
> Cc: Dovecot Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Problems fetching mail
> 
> On 13.3.2007, at 3.25, Curt LeCaptain wrote:
> 
> > According to your other e-mail, you asked me to also remove the 
> > indexes from the ~/mail/.imap directory, I did so and this time the 
> > out of sequence error didn't happen, but the same error in 
> Thunderbird 
> > did (Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid UID messageset."
> 
> After deleting the .imap/ directory, remove all X-UID headers 
> from the mbox file. I'm guessing it contains some very high 
> UID numbers and Thunderbird doesn't understand them and sends 
> negative numbers instead (this is actually a TB bug).
> 
> If that didn't help, show me the command Thunderbird sends. Use eg.  
> Wireshark or rawlog (see http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html).
> 
> > I see a suggestion about the SMTP server and header filtering.  I'm 
> > not sure I want to do this right now, but could Postfix be causing 
> > some of these issues?  Might be a bit far fetched, but I'm just 
> > looking for any ideas.
> 
> Originally it could have been caused by invalid X-UID 
> headers, but not anymore.
> 

Well, this time I whipped out OE and tested via that as well - that went
better, I saw all the messages, so I'm assuming the UIDs are just bad
for Thunderbird - next up I'll test on IMP and see how that works.