[Dovecot] Possible fix to an old Thunderbird related problem

[Marc Perkel]

Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>   
>> Charles Marcus wrote:
>>     
>>> On 7/12/2009 12:23 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> I spoke too soon. Thunderbird is still broken. And it's really
>>>> frustrating.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I'm sure Timo and others (myself included) would like more details...
>>>
>>> *What* is broken?
>>>
>>> Dovecot config details (dovecot -n output and other info that isn't
>>> provided by that output)?
>>>
>>> Logs exhibiting the problem?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'm not sure where the problem is. Thunderbird always starts out fine.
>> But after running for some time the message count of unread message will
>> increase on folder with new messages but when you click on the folders
>> the new messages don't appear. Or messages appear but seem to be empty
>> messages. When selecting to empty the trash - the trash doesn't empty,
>> ot the count of messages in trash will drop down somewhat.
>>
>> Restarting Dovecot or restarting Thunderbird always solves the problem
>> for a while. I noticed the problem got a lot worse recently and the last
>> change was upgrading to 1.2.1. But it's been a serious annoyance for
>> over a year.
>>
>> Nothing strange in the logs to report. Wish I had more information.
>>
>>     
>
> I see this every now and then with Thunderbird as well; just today, in
> fact. Nothing strange (other than this) to report and no errors in the
> logs. I'm on 1.1.17.
>
> I know I'm absolutely no help, but it's not just you. ;)
>
> ~Seth
>
>   

Actually knowing it's just not me is somewhat helpful. :)