Hello. I have seen in recent posts that there are other people with this problem, and it is very important for me, as it is the only cause for not putting Dovecot in production in all mail servers in my University.
When moving/copying messages, some of them get stuck in the tmp directory of the destination folder, effectively lost for the user.
I have been tracing the problem, and it looks that it happens with messages that have flags. The others don't have problems. But if I copy/move several flagged messages, one of them is copied, and the others are kept in tmp.
In maildir-save.c there is the following comment:
/* if we have flags, we'll move it to cur/ directly, because files in
new/ directory can't have flags. alternative would be to write it
in new/ and set the flags dirty in index file, but in that case
external MUAs would see wrong flags. */that looks like a clue.
It happens with CVS versions 20060320 and 20060325 I hace done almost all tests with Thunderbird.
Best regards.
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