Re: Dovecot marking outgonig emails as unread

Andy, thanks for your reply. Have you received feedback from your tech support pool on whether this same problem is occurring with other customers?

(PS Sorry for the previous empty message earlier today, my mistake)

To: John Fawcett via dovecot (dovecot@dovecot.org); Subject: Dovecot marking outgonig emails as unread; 18.02.2026, 08:54, "Andy Baugh via dovecot" <dovecot@dovecot.org>:

 Hard to say for sure what might be causing this and I'm the dev
 primarily responsible for the dovecot 2.4 upgrade on cPanel. If anything
 I'd say it's a strange enough scenario that we don't have automated
 testing for it.

 If I had to guess, us forcing the maildirsize file to act more like it
 did on dovecot 2.3 is also forcing flag recalc somewhere it shouldn't be
 given you say this only started happening very recently. If getting your
 mail account switched over to mdbox (it uses count driver instead of
 maildir driver for quota) fixes it, then I'd be more confident in my
 guess, but since you don't have control of the server it's kind of a
 moot point (cPanel users don't have access to swap from maildir to
 mdbox).

 I'll ask some of our tech support pool here if they've encountered
 anything like that with some of our other customers. If there's a bug
 that we can replicate, we'll try to fix it.

 Cheers,

 --
 Thomas "Andy" Baugh | Software Development Engineer IV
 [1]andy.baugh@webpros.com
 [2]http://www.webpros.com/

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 Subject: Dovecot marking outgonig emails as unread

    Starting a few days ago, I have one email account where ALL outgoing

    emails are automatically marked as UNREAD.

    The message is sent, then copied to the "Sent" folder, and has status

    "unread".

    Then, a couple of minutes later, something happens where this message
 gets

    marked as UNREAD, without ANY interaction of client side.

    This occurs not matter the email client used, I have tried it with

    multiple email clients, both local and via web interface, the
 behavior

    does not change.

    This is via Dovevot on Cpanel. if I look at the [1]changelog, it is

    difficult to identify which changes could have triggered this as
 there

    seem to be changes impacting Dovecot almost with every update.

    I do not control the server myself, this is on a shared hosting plan;
 tech

    support has been willing to troubleshoot but is unable to locate the

    problem. This problem does NOT occur on other email accounts on the
 same

    domain, so it looks to me like some corruption or problem syncing
 flags

    perhaps? I am at a loss at the moment to fix this behavior.

    Any suggestions or ideas welcome.

    Thanks.

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