[Dovecot] Lost email where did it go...?

[Nikolai Bochev]

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog

That could come in handy next time.

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:27 -0500, Romer Ventura wrote:
> It mostly works, sometime it creates them, others it doesnt... The  
> thing is that the users never delete an email, even when they put it  
> in the trash, it has been set up to never delete them, so unless i  
> manually erase those email every 6 months they will never be erased.  
> It is just not there..
> 
> # dovecot -n
> # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.16.60-0.21-xenpae i686 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server  
> 10 (i586)
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_uid: vmail
> mail_gid: vmail
> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir/
> mail_plugins: lazy_expunge
> imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
> namespace:
>    type: private
>    separator: /
>    inbox: yes
>    list: yes
>    subscriptions: yes
> namespace:
>    type: private
>    separator: /
>    prefix: .EXPUNGED/
>    location: maildir:/srv/mail/vmail/%Ud/%Ln/Maildir/expunged
>    list: yes
>    subscriptions: yes
> namespace:
>    type: private
>    separator: /
>    prefix: .DELETED/
>    location: maildir:/srv/mail/vmail/%Ud/%Ln/Maildir/deleted
>    list: yes
>    subscriptions: yes
> namespace:
>    type: private
>    separator: /
>    prefix: .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/
>    location: maildir:/srv/mail/vmail/%Ud/%Ln/Maildir/deleted/expunged
>    list: yes
>    subscriptions: yes
> auth default:
>    mechanisms: plain login
>    passdb:
>      driver: ldap
>      args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
>    userdb:
>      driver: ldap
>      args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
>    socket:
>      type: listen
>      client:
>        path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>        mode: 432
>        user: postfix
>        group: postfix
>      master:
>        path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>        mode: 384
>        user: vmail
>        group: vmail
> plugin:
>    lazy_expunge: .EXPUNGED/ .DELETED/ .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/
> 
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 11:23 -0500, Romer Ventura wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have this user that lost an email, even when the server is set up
> >> to do lazy expunge.
> >
> > Have you tried that lazy expunge really works correctly? Have you
> > enabled it for POP3 too? What Dovecot version are you using?
> >
>