[Dovecot] Little problem with dovecot using mbox format
Hi everyone, this is my first post on this mailing list. I recently
installed postfix+dovecot+fetchmail on OpenBSD for my dad's office.
(dovecot is setup as an imap server using mbox). Everything worked
flawlessly...until now.
I don't know why, but now some emails seem to de-double themselves. For
exemple, yesterday morning I printed out all the emails. To my surprise
30 minutes later, I received 60 'new'' emails. But these 60 emails
weren't new, they were all copies of emails I had printed out earlier.
Some emails were repeated some 10-15 times. Now we never got this kind
of problem until recently. Has anyone ever experienced this kind of
problem? If so how did you fix the situation? Most responses I got
from the openBSD mailing list was to use maildir format. Any insight
into this?
Thanks,
Jean-Daniel
BTW we don't get THAT much email, maybe 200 a day for that 1 account that seems to be acting weird now.
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 19:57:16 -0400 Jd jd@jackdan.net wrote:
I don't know why, but now some emails seem to de-double themselves. For exemple, yesterday morning I printed out all the emails. To my surprise 30 minutes later, I received 60 'new'' emails.
This doesn't sound like a Dovecot problem to me; much more likely to be a fetchmail setup problem.
Do you have fetchmail set up to delete the messages on the server (the server which it is fetching mails from)? After fetchmail has run, have you confirmed that it has indeed deleted the mails from the server?
Keith
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- Quoting Keith Edmunds (keith@midnighthax.com):
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 19:57:16 -0400 Jd jd@jackdan.net wrote:
I don't know why, but now some emails seem to de-double themselves. For exemple, yesterday morning I printed out all the emails. To my surprise 30 minutes later, I received 60 'new'' emails.
This doesn't sound like a Dovecot problem to me; much more likely to be a fetchmail setup problem.
Could be a clientproblem, too. We have a setup with pmail as client on different workstations. When they're started at the same time on different workstations we end up getting a lot of double mails.
- Rolf
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