[Dovecot] wish now I'd not upgraded...

[Nikolay Shopik]

On 15.02.2010 17:14, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Upgraded from Debian Dovecot 1.0.15 to Debian Dovecot 1.2.10-1~bpo50+1.
>
> I use Postfix local delivery to and Dovecot mbox.  As per upgrade directions, I
> stopped dovecot processes and deleted all dovecot.index.cache files in
> /home/%user/mail/.imap.  Performed upgrade to 1.2.10-1~bpo50+1.  Modified new
> dovecot.conf for my environment.  Started dovecot.
>
> Problem:  Instantly noticed in TB 3.0.1 Win32 that all emails in all folders
> were marked as unread.  Stopped TB, stopped dovecot, deleted *all* files in
> /home/%user/mail/imap/ so indexes and caches could be rebuilt from scratch.
> Started dovecot, started TB.  Same problem.
>
> Then I got ugly, stopped TB and dovecot, deleted all ~.imap/ files *and* deleted
> *all* TB cache and index files with a time stamp of today.  Restarted dovecot,
> restarted TB.  Same damn problem.  I sit hit right clicking folder after folder
> and selecting "mark as read", only to see all the emails in the folder go "read"
> and then within seconds go back to marked as unread (bold).  Opening messages
> one at a time and moving to the next doesn't even keep them marked as read.
>
> WTF is going on?  Why won't they stay marked as read?  I've got over 25,000
> emails in these folders and I get a few hundred list mails a day.  I really need
> to get this read/unread business straightened out.
>
> What the heck am I missing?  Is this a  bug in the Debian backport?  Good thing
> I have no hair or I'd have pulled half of it out by now...
>

It's bug in TB 3.0 with CONDSTORE capability, it's fixed for next 
version 3.0.2. You can disable it in prefs 
mail.server.default.use_condstore = false untill 3.0.2 released