Obantec Support wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: bclements@io-networks.com To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 8:23 PM Subject: [Dovecot] Mail disappearing
My users are complaining that their mail is dissappearing out of folders or if they go into a folder, the mail will be there one minute, the next it isn't.
Anybody see this before...and if so..is there a fix?
I'm running dovecot 99.11
Hi
Yes a user reported this tonight. 30MB of emails gone! not happy and wants me to restore from backup. ( i had to explain we only backup website data).
running FC3 with 0.99 but a test of 1.0 stable is on the cards.
all i want is a stable pop3 server like i had on RH8.0
Mark
Please don't scare the wotsits out of me, I've just abandoned Courier IMAP for two reasons:
it seems incapable of handling subfolders anywhere but below the Inbox and the only help suggested is that I should ask the people writing my mail client to fix it - so that covers Microsoft (x2), Mozilla (x2), Eudora, Evolution and Squirrel mail for starters!
this is the relevant one here - I kept loosing mail within my IMAP folders. I don't know whether this one may be relevant here, but the issue was basically a visibility thing. If I accessed the folders directly from Mutt on the server all the mail was all there. If I used a mail client then the mail would not be there. Once in a while a folder would show up some mail, but others would not see it, and once I'd hit one of these the only folder that would update properly was the Inbox until I restarted. Admittedly this was not mail dissappearing, simply not appearing in the first place, but I thought I'd mention it in case the description prompted someone to have a bright idea about what would be causing the reference problems in Dovecot :) From what I could see the client and server just stopped talking to each other. I certainly got no error messages logged. I'm using Thunderbird at the moment, and I think the problem was primarily in the two Mozilla based mail clients, and Outlook (+ Express). I seem to recall Evolution being OK, but sadly Evolution is deceased on my system and I've not worked out whether this is my own problem or a Debian issue yet.
As an aside, I've been very pleased with Dovecot so far, especially having spent so long trying to get Courier working properly. So far I have Exim 4 working with it and Procmail. My next stage of mail upgrade is to rebuild my filtering with Mailscanner, Spamassassing and ClamAV as well as hooking up IMP for webmail. I also need to build in virtual user support with probably an LDAP backend. By then I hope there'll be a version in Debian Backports for shared folders ;) I may hold off a bit on this though.
-- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/