Hi,
I am having some trouble with dovecot (0.99.14) and maildir. Some users are reporting that sometimes, they don't get (pop3, various clients) new mails for a while even though they should. I checked and confirmed this: mails were delivered by MTA (sendmail, procmail). But when the problem existed, the new mails were in cur/, not new/ and dovecot would not report any new messaged to the client.
A 'solution' was to send another mail to the same account, and ususally this would end up in new/ On the next fetch, this new message and the new ones from cur/ are downloaded.
I also had the same problem with imap and evolution today. My inbox showed as empty but there were many messages in cur/ I could access all other folders without a problem during this period. Again, a simple mail to myself 'solved' this.
This behaviour does not happen all the time and I don't know how to trigger/reproduce it.
Just the relevant (imho) parts of dovecot.conf:
login_process_size = 256 login_processes_count = 64 login_max_logging_users = 1024
default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir
client_workarounds = outlook-idle oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-pop3-no-nuls
everything else is set to default values
Any ideas/help?
Thanks Bjoern
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