Hi all,
I have continuously experienced a new mail not appearing problem in Outlook 2003 on Windows XP. Using Dovecot 0.99.14 on Debian Sarge and now in 1.0rc26 and rc27.
The problem exhibits itself as: Some new mail is randomly(?) not shown in my mailbox. More new mail does appear, so it's difficult to know when a message has been missed. If I restart Outlook the missed new messages will appear as unread in the order where they should have been received in my inbox.
I use secure imap. I get email through my inbox (receipts from a website we're testing, at its peak maybe 2-3 a minute) that are moved into another mailbox using a rule in Outlook. These are often the messages that are missed as above, but it often includes other email as well.
The mail box format is mbox on the server. The mail delivery is by exim4 from Debian Sarge. I wondered if there was a locking problem between exim4 and dovecot? My transport in exim4 for delivering the mail is: mail_spool_home: debug_print = "T: appendfile for $local_part@$domain" driver = appendfile file = /home/vmail/$domain/$local_part/INBOX delivery_date_add envelope_to_add return_path_add group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false
The problem is reproducable in that I see the problem occur everyday. I am about to compile and install rc28 to see if that improves matters. I'd appreciate any help resolving the problem!
Here is my dovecot.conf:
# /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: pop3 imap imaps disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:/home/vmail/%d/%n/mail/:INBOX=/home/vmail/%d/%n/INBOX mbox_dirty_syncs: no mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/vmail.passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=1064 gid=1001 home=/home/vmail/%d/%u