On Mon 01 Oct 2007, Charles Marcus wrote:

On 10/1/2007, Timothy Murphy (gayleard@eircom.net) wrote:

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I'm running dovecot on my desktop with kmail as IMAP client on my laptop.

When I start kmail on the laptop it sometimes takes several minutes to "calm down". The number of messages listed in the IMAP inbox increases greatly - maybe from 2500 to 3000 - and then slowly decreases. There are sometimes a large number of duplicate messages, which kmail allows one to delete.

I don't know if this is a kmail or dovecot problem. It is quite likely there is something wrong in my setup.

More details would be helpful... no one here is a mind reader... ;)

Dovecot-1.0.3, KMail-1.9.8, KDE- 3.5.7, under Fedora 7

On Tue 02 Oct 2007, Charles Marcus wrote:

you're teasing us? You missed the request for dovecot -n output? pertinent log snippets?

Seriously - how is anyone supposed to help you? Guess?

Sorry, the output of "dovecot -n" is

[tim@alfred ~]$ dovecot -n # 1.0.3: /etc/dovecot.conf Error: Can't use SSL certificate /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem: Permission denied Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf

I assumed the only piece of useful information here was the version number.

Is /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem really supposed to be world-readable?

The output as root is

[root@alfred tim]# dovecot -n # 1.0.3: /etc/dovecot.conf info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imap imaps listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir/ auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd