[Apologies if you've seen this message twice. I originally sent it from another e-mail account but it never seemed to appear on the list for me.]

Apologies if this has been mentioned before. I've searched quite a few of the archives, but haven't found an answer.

I've just installed dovecot 1.1.6 on my qnap server, and have found an odd interaction with spampal that I've not seen before using other imap servers.

Let me attempt to explain.

On the mail server machine, I use XMail to pull in new messages from my external pop3 mail account. These messages are then visable to dovecot's imap server.

On my mail client machine, I have a spampal proxy between outlook express and the imap server.

So, when I wish to read mail, outlook express connects to the spampal proxy and spampal then connects to the dovecot imap server.

That all works fine until a message that spampal thinks is spam arrives.

spampal instructs the dovecot imap server to move the message from Inbox to the Spam folder and then expunge Inbox.

However, erroneously, a random message in my Inbox now seems to lose its seen flag.

So if I have 5 new spam messages arrive, all 5 get moved from Inbox to Spam, but correspondingly 5 messages in the middle of my Inbox are now apparently not seen, so outlook express says there are 5 unseen messages, and lets me move down to them.

It's almost as if the flags for the Spam folder are being applied to the Inbox folder instead.

I've used wireshark to capture an example session of this happening when 2 spam messages arrive, in the hope that somebody wiser than I can work out what is going wrong, and where.

Any help gratefully received.

Thanks.

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