On 5/19/2009 11:00 AM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
i have a annoying problem with dovecot after updating to 1.1.14.
Dovecot seems to empty all cur/ and new/ Folders in the Maildir of a particular user several times a day (3 times so far). It leaves only unread messages in their place. All Index-Files are getting updated and reflect the "empty"-State of the Mailbox.
I think dovecot is just doing what it is told by the client...
There is no Expire/Expunge-Plugin running.
Fortunately i have a hourly backup-snapshot to restore the Mailboxes, but this is obviously no solution.
How can i debug this problem? Any advice is welcome.
System: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, dovecot-1.1.14, dovecot-managesieve-0.10.6, dovecot-sieve-1.1.6 (all installed via the ports-tree), exim-4.69_3
Clients: Thunderbird, Mail.app both IMAP only
A wild shot is Thunderbird (if I remember correctly) has an remove read messages either after some many minutes or when closing it. OOPS! There it is. Account Settings -> Server Settings -> Clean up" (Expunge") Inbox on Exit
Thunderbird also has what is called a 'Retention Policy' that you can set *on each folder* ('right-click-on-folder > Properties > Retention Policy') that overrides the per account global setting ('Tools > Account Settings > YourAccount > Offline and Disk Space > Disk Space'...
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Best regards,
Charles