[Dovecot] squirrelmail inbox empty
I am running Dovecot + Postfix +Squirrelmail on Debian Lenny.Fetchmail pulls the mail, dovecot spreads it around. I had squirrelmail setup & I tested it from within my router ( internal LAN). yesterday I had to go babysit my grand daughter, and I setup port forward for IMAP port 143, and I can use squirrelmail through firefox on my laptop. All the other folders have all the mail from the time I left til now. Yesterday I was reading inbpox mail, deleted a few junks, etc, and suspended my laptop. When I came back my inbox was empty, and I've never seen any more messages in it. I know I should have LOTS of older+new messages that don't get filtered. Unfortunately ssh doesn't seem to work from this linux side, it does from the windos side ( ssh keys?), so I can't get in to look at the logs.. I already removed ( I think ) all the inbox index files... & restarted, but no joy. I am not sure if it is getting filtered from the ibox, or if I just can't see it. I am not familiar with how squirrelmail works with local IMAP folders, so I am unsure where to look or what logs to browse. I will be home later today.
suggestions clues or otherwise??
-- Paul Cartwright
Paul Cartwright put forth on 11/12/2010 9:13 AM:
Yesterday I was reading inbpox mail, deleted a few junks, etc, and suspended my laptop.
This may come as a shock or surprise to you Paul, but you should never suspend a laptop while you have a network socket open to a remote host, especially if it's an encrypted (SSL) connection. Always log out first.
Given the problem you describe, I'd suggest closing your browser, launching it again, connect to your SM page, and login again. If that doesn't fix the problem, clear your browser cache. If that still doesn't solve your problem, reboot the laptop. If that still doesn't solve your problem, check the server logs when you get home.
Unless someone sniffed your credentials (unlikely) and logged in to your now open IMAP 143 port and deleted all you mail, then it should still be there.
BTW, why did you punch a hole through the router for TCP 143? That's not needed for webmail access (SM). Opening TCP 143 (better would be 993) is only needed if you want to connect Thunderbird directly to Dovecot while at a remote location. And as I said, you should only use an encrypted connection for this (TCP 993 with IMAPS).
-- Stan
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