[Dovecot] messages downloading repeatedly to mozilla/seamonkey pop3 client

[Ben Julian]

Timo,
  Wow, thanks for checking back on this after all that time. I am
actually still having problems, and just working around them by using
a script to manually wipe out the inbox and index files for the user
with the problem.  I tried your suggestion of explicitly setting the
mailbox location.  It didn't seem to stop the problem, but it is hard
to reproduce on demand.  By sending the user a lot of forwarded mail,
I was able to reproduce the issue once.  I left it defined and tried
Mark Sapiro's suggestion, adding " pop3_lock_session = yes", and so
far, so good.  I won't really know until a few days of use have
passed.  I'll be sure to let the list know how it turns out.  Thanks
for the follow up, guys, totally unexpected.
-Ben


On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> Do you still have this problem? You could try setting mail_location
> explicitly to see if it changes anything
> (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation).
>
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 17:25 -0400, Ben Julian wrote:
>> Timo,
>>   The user can't access the mailbox directly under normal use
>> circumstances.  He doesn't have a smb share setup to allow him access
>> to the mbox file.  As far as I know, the only program besides dovecot
>> doing editing of the mail is spamassassin, but that happens before the
>> mail is written to the mbox.  Perhaps I am misunderstanding your
>> question?
>> -Ben
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:17 -0500, Ben Julian wrote:
>> >  > Mar  3 10:37:00 servername dovecot: POP3(user): mbox sync: UID
>> >  > inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/user (84873 > 84872,
>> >  > seq=2, idx_msgs=3)
>> >
>> >  This is the main problem, these shouldn't happen. Can the user access
>> >  the mailboxes directly?
>> >
>> >  See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxProblems
>> >
>