Hi,

I've recently seen the following issue. A user logs in with pop3, and sees zero e-mails. The maildir contains emails both in cur and new. The mail delivery is done with qmail, and this user have had no logins before, so it has only the inbox, trash and sent (while dovecot is configured to create drafts and spam folders too). Because of this, the user doesn't have any dovecot indexes either.

So, he logs in, and sees nothing. The strange thing is Dovecot doesn't create any of the above directories nor indexes. After moving the mailbox to another server, the user can log in, the additional folders get created and also the indexes appear. pop3 shows the correct amount of emails. Moving the mailbox back to the original server shows the same issue: no emails at all. Restarting dovecot on the original server resolves the issue. This is a pretty loaded machine, so I couldn't trace the processes. I know that this isn't too much, but that's what I have.

The only thing I could identify in the error log is: Feb 17 12:45:58 pop3(varszr@asdfg): Warning: Created dotlock file's timestamp is different than current time (1297943148 vs 1297943086): /home/varszr@asdfg/Maildir/subscriptions

Which may happened due to a restart and maybe a clock setting. But that was yesterday.

Any ideas?

# 2.0.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE amd64 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 100 M auth_cache_ttl = 1 days disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = syslog log_path = /var/log/dovecot-errors.log mail_fsync = never mail_gid = 999 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " quota" mail_uid = 999 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = INBOX.Trash autocreate2 = INBOX.Drafts autocreate3 = INBOX.Sent autocreate4 = INBOX.Spam autosubscribe = INBOX.Trash autosubscribe2 = INBOX.Drafts autosubscribe3 = INBOX.Sent autosubscribe4 = INBOX.Spam mail_log_events = delete mailbox_delete mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size flags vsize from subject quota = maildir:User quota } protocols = pop3 imap lmtp service anvil { client_limit = 8192 } service auth { client_limit = 8192 unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = qmailldap } } service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 100 process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 } service imap { client_limit = 1 process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } user = qmailldap } service pop3-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 100 process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 } service pop3 { client_limit = 1 process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 32 service_count = 0 } ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " quota mail_log notify" } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 1024 mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota autocreate mail_log notify" } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 1024 mail_plugins = " quota autocreate" }