[Dovecot] cannot delete emails in inbox
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Sun Jan 4 19:59:55 EET 2009
On Jan 4, 2009, at 12:33 AM, JANE CUA wrote:
> I am working on upgrading our current squirrelmail and replace uw-
> imap with dovecot. I have what looks like a successful
> installation. My current setup is:
> Centos 5.2
> sendmail 8.13.8
> dovecot 1.1.17 (imap)
> squirrelmail 1.4.17
>
> I can send and receive email fine. However when I try to delete an
> email in my Inbox, it doesn't get deleted. It only sends a copy to
> the Trash folder. But the email is still in the Inbox. I can purge
> and delete the contents in my Trash and Sent folder, no problem. I
> am not sure if this is a Squirrelmail issue or a Dovecot issue.
> Please advice. Thank you -- Jane
Is this with mbox? Have you looked at the logs if there are error
mesages (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging)? Sounds like INBOX is read-
only because it can't create a dotlock file to /var/mail. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox
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