Andrew Moran schrieb:
Hey guys,
I am not sure if this is a Mail.app bug or a dovecot bug. I can reproduce it 100% of the time using dovecot and Mail.app. I cannot reproduce it with other imap clients, which at first made me think it was Mail.app, but then I tried Mail.app with other imap servers and couldn't reproduce it either, so it's definitely the combination of the two. So I thought I'd try you guys first before submitting a bug to Apple.
The problem: If I move multiple messages (set "A") from one imap folder to another, then delete those messages, and then move another set into that same folder (set "B"), then all the messages in set B show up as duplicates until I relaunch Mail.app.
My configuration: Server: Dovecot 1.0rc22 using Maildir on FreeBSD 6.1 Client: Mail.app 2.1 on OS X 10.4.8
Steps to reproduce: (these steps involve trashing messages, so it's best to test this on email you are going to toss anyway)
- Create a new imap folder (let's say "bar")
- Drag more than one message (let's say 3 or 4) from existing imap folder "foo" to new folder "bar".
- Click on new folder "bar" and see messages in there.
- Select messages and delete them (Delete key). Messages are gone as expected.
- Go back to original folder "foo" and drag a few more messages into new folder "bar"
- Click on bar.
- You will notice that all the second set of messages show up twice.
Relaunching Mail.app at this point makes the problem disappear. I'm guessing this has something to do with the deleted messages from Set A being purged until the close of imap connection. Any help narrowing this down would be appreciated.
Thank you,
--Andy
Hi Andrew,
i have some reports for double mails with a courier server imap with apple mail too ( which i cant found in the mail log, and have no real idea where they come from, i was nearly sure users double them with some filters in the client over some other server, but hearing your problem i get awake that this might be a general apple mail bug), so are sure that is not a apple bug, have you asked at some apple mail list for clearing? I hadnt the chance to inspect some of that so called double mail, cause the users delete them always at once ( i told them to leave me examples in imap , but as users are they ignore what i said but cry on if the failure comes again ) So iam really unsure if there is any relations between your failure and mine, but a broken client might be also a answer. I am sorry to have no apple at my own to make tests with my dovecot or courier setups
After all i sometimes see likely behavior in thunderbird too with imap dovecot and courier for short times, its a caching thing, if i click on the meant to be double mails, imap syncs and they disapear, ( so there is no double in fact ) so i simple ignore this, i think this comes up with many mails and choosen option folders for offline usage.
-- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best Regards
Robert Schetterer
https://www.schetterer.org Munich/Bavaria/Germany