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.
If you're using JFS, that has a bug which causes this.
If you're using NFS there might also be problems related this.
nothing fancy. just plain local ext3 with dir_index configured as described in the documentation
Anyway, 0.99.x probably had other bugs which could cause this, 1.0betas should work better..
not at all. I upgraded (to beta3) yesterday and it looks like it is worse now. Some users don't get any new messages reported even though there are 10-20 or even more. They arrive in /new/, get moved to /cur/ with status 'unread' but they are not offered/transferred to the client.
After some time (hours usually), mails finally show up in the client. This still happens with pop3/imap and various clients.
At about the same time the mails show up again, this appears in the logfile:
dovecot: 2006-03-29 10:58:07 Error: imap(USER): Maildir /mailhome/USER/Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (824 > 804, file = msg.4AA4:2, )
Any ideas?
Thanks Bjoern
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