Hello,
I'm testing dovecot with some setups, and one of them is with shared mailboxes. The test I wrote will create and delete mail using multiple connections to the same user and folder. Each connection makes a couple of mails, remembers the uid from APPENDUID, and will delete those emails again. At the end of the test I expect an empty folder.
From logging in the other imap server I've seen that a client command to the
- local system user, connecting over localhost -> bug is present
- local system user, connecting over internet -> bug is present, but is harder to reproduce
- dovecot as proxy to another imap server -> bug is present In step 3, you can even setup a dovecot to be a proxy to another dovecot server.
This is not what happens. At the end I still have several mails in the folder. I lack insight in the dovecot source to tell exactly what's going on. I've tested this with different setups: proxy like: TAG UID STORE 1:3 +FLAGS (\Deleted) TAG UID EXPUNGE 1:3 will be sent to the other imap server in 3 steps, one for each message. When running the test with multiple threads, that logging shows that some uids are never sent to the other imap server, and some uids are sent over different connections than they original were sent to. (Thread 1 deletes 1:3, Thread 2 deletes 4:6, the proxy of Thread 1 might expunge messages from Thread 2 and vice versa).
Attached is a python script which tests the behavior. The script expects a file named "testmail.eml" to upload to the imap server. I used an email which was about 75 kB. I tested using version: 2.2.22 (fe789d2). Let me know if I can help in any other way too.
John