[Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Feb 12 00:34:09 EET 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:27 -0500, dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us
wrote:
> Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express  
> (imap) as an email client?  I have had a couple of users come up with  
> random missing emails.  Im trying to figure out if it is user error,  
> or something wacky in my mailserver.   I cant find anything telling in  
> maillog files or my messages.  Dovecot version is 1.0.3.  Its ok to  
> reply to me, I get list messages digest.

You may find it helpful to enable mail_log plugin:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog

With v1.0 you can't get it to log e.g. message subject, but perhaps
message-id is enough. At least you'll see if the user is deleting some
messages.

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