[Dovecot] header-lines of subfolders have to be rescanned after each client startup

[Rainer Sigl]

Timo Sirainen schrieb:

>On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 15:53 +0200, Rainer Sigl wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>after each startup of my different mail clients (thunderbird, outlook, 
>>...) the contents of subfolders if I click in has to be renewed. This 
>>takes some time for large folders. I just migrated from courier. And 
>>there all subfolders were available immediately. Is there something to 
>>configure?
>>Another effect regarding subfolders is that the client forgets, which 
>>subfolders were opened after shutdown and shows the folders closed. This 
>>means, that necessary subfolders have to be reopened after each startup. 
>>This was managed  as well by my previous courier server.
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Many thanks,
no, I don't use NFS but it may be a permission problem.
I have virtual users so all the directories belong a artificial user 
'exim' and also group 'exim'. Additionally I saw now that the file 
dovecot-uidlist has the protection 600. The creation date of 
dovecot-uidlist is the date when I synced first time the folders with 
dovecot after installation. But strangely a change of the permissions to 
666 has no effect, dove-cot isn't changed.
A additional info may be that I migrated von courier imap.
So the mainfolder INBOX. and single subfolders have a correct changing 
dovecot-uidlist with 600 and exim exim.
All subfolders below the upper subfolders (.Sent.2005.2-Mar) don't 
change dovecot-uidlist.

Rainer

>Sounds like something's really wrong in here. Are you using NFS? Do you
>see dovecot-uidlist file in each subfolder directory? Does it get
>changed?
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