[Dovecot] inbox issue
Tom Pawlowski
tompru at jla.rutgers.edu
Mon Oct 10 22:27:30 EEST 2011
What you're describing has been a symptom of a corrupted index/uidlist
our experience. Now *what's* corrupting it, depends on your setup.
Just to clarify, you're using a single dovecot IMAP/POP3 mail server and
not multiple servers, correct?
And equally important, are you using a NFS backend for the Maildirs?
If so, read these:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-May/049031.html
And look into this: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director
If not, check the log files, are you getting corrupted index errors for
the users in question? Check their quotas, are they all under?
If they're at quota, then dovecot can't update the index or uidlist for
that user. One solution:
http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/dovecot@dovecot.org/2010-08/msg01028.html
That's what first comes to mind for me.
* Eric Broch <ebroch at whitehorsetc.com> [2011-10-10 13:04:44 -0600]:
> I have dovecot 2.0.11 installed on a CentOS 5.7 email server. Two of the
> server email clients, one using Outlook and the other Thunderbird, have
> had all the contents of their inbox disappear only to reappear at a
> later time. One client's inbox email reappeared upon receiving a test
> email (to check if it would show up in the inbox) from another user. Has
> anyone heard of such a thing?
>
> Here's a dump of my dovecot configuration.
>
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