On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 12:43 +0200, Olivier Cailloux wrote:
Since the change for dovecot, however, things are going strange. Sometimes the labels disappear for some reasons. Sometimes they stay there. And I can't reproduce the behavior, it just seems random. This is very annoying as it totally breaks my e-mail management.
Yes, there have been some bugs related to handling them.
clients agree: this e-mail has a "5" label. BUT when I open the mbox file directly on the imap server (using "less"), and scroll to that given e-mail, I see NO "X-Keywords: " line. How then can the e-mail clients know that this e-mail is labeled?
The keywords are also stored in Dovecot's index files. Although they should still be written to mbox files too.
2-12h38-~#dovecot --version 1.0.15
I'd first try a recent v1.1 release. It might have already fixed this bug. Also you could try if setting mbox_lazy_writes=no helps.