[Dovecot] Users can't delete an email (Totally Random effect)
Jesse C. Smillie
jsmillie at gatewayk12.org
Tue Jul 1 23:40:09 EEST 2008
Will definitely look into the usermin connection.
Not to be totally stupid, but I clicked the link you listed. Does that
mean next 1.0 release there will a fix to at least work out the whole
can't delete thing?
-Jesse C. Smillie
"Insert inspirational or witty comment here...."
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 15:07 -0400, Jesse C. Smillie wrote:
>
>> Hello all... Found a weird one here. I tried to search the web but I'm
>> not having luck so I thought I'd hit the mailing list.
>>
>> We have noticed off and on all school year that every so often a user
>> gets an email that they just can't delete using Thunderbird or Outlook
>> over IMAP (we do not support Pop3 anymore.) Essentially the user clicks
>> the email and takes it to the trash. When they empty the trash the
>> email appears again in their inbox as if it was new! Up until this
>> point I would just tell people to login to Usermin which is still set to
>> access the email natively through the maildir format and delete it that way.
>>
>> What we have found out is that emails which have their info fields
>> repeated twice are emails which can't be deleted. So for example:
>> root at gator:/home/somedude# find ./ -iname '*,*,*'
>> ./Maildir/cur/1208807796.29873_0.gator:2,Sb:2,S
>>
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/39bb56f31185 fixes this.
>
>
>> Unfortunately I don't know how or why these emails are created.
>>
>
> Maybe Usermin creates them?
>
>
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