[Dovecot] POP3 Mails Not Deleted
Dear all,
Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. We are running Dovecot 1.1.1. Ireceived complaints from one of my colleagues. She checks her mails both from home and from office, so she left her mails in the server for 3 days. This morning she got lots of received mails again. I tracked the syslog, and found the following records:
============ Jul 2 18:39:59 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/577, size=55354063 Jul 3 11:59:17 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=99/4866408, del=287/676, size=60218727 Jul 3 12:05:19 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=288/35132998, del=2/677, size=60220846 Jul 3 12:09:58 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=2/9289, del=2/675, size=60190368
It seems that the deleted 287 mails was not really deleted, thoughthe second deletion works.
This happens occationally, so I cannot easily reproduce it. Cananyone look into this issue? How can I debug further?
Thank you very much in advance.-- imacat ^_*' imacat@mail.imacat.idv.tw PGP Key: http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc
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on 7-2-2008 9:26 PM imacat spake the following:
Dear all,
Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. We are running Dovecot 1.1.1. Ireceived complaints from one of my colleagues. She checks her mails both from home and from office, so she left her mails in the server for 3 days. This morning she got lots of received mails again. I tracked the syslog, and found the following records:
Is she by any chance using Outlook? If so try increasing her timeouts.
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:36:55 -0700 Scott Silva <ssilva@sgvwater.com> wrote:
on 7-2-2008 9:26 PM imacat spake the following:
Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. We are running Dovecot 1.1.1. Ireceived complaints from one of my colleagues. She checks her mails both from home and from office, so she left her mails in the server for 3 days. This morning she got lots of received mails again. I tracked the syslog, and found the following records:
Is she by any chance using Outlook? If so try increasing her timeouts.
No, she is using Becky! http://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm .
By the way, how could timeout affect deletion failure? I thoughtthe syslog message is recorded after the deletion suceedded.
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On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:26 +0800, imacat wrote:
Jul 3 11:59:17 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=99/4866408, del=287/676, size=60218727 Jul 3 12:05:19 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=288/35132998, del=2/677, size=60220846
Did you see any errors in logs? They might even be logged to a different file, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging
Also is this with mbox or maildir?
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