[Dovecot] Always 'new mail' false notifications?
Hi,
I just yesterday played around and installed dovecot. I like it a lot (except for the lack of mysql support), but I have one issue I can't seem to fix. I am using mutt as my mailclient and mutt will alert me whenever new mail has arrived in any mailfolder I have configured. The thing is, that mutt continously signals me of new mail in all my folders, when in reality nothing has entered there.
Does this sound familiar to anyone ? All I can think of, is that something is happening with modification timestamps of my mailboxes which signals the new mail flag, but I don't know what causes it.
A small description of my setup: One server running dovecot. I access mail locally via IMAP, but can also access the spoolfiles and mailfolders directly. I'm the only one with shell access. Procmail filters mail and delivers it to my mailfolders in ~/Mail.
Any ideas ?
-- Stephan van Beerschoten [KeyID: 0x08F12864] "To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy"
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 09:55, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
I am using mutt as my mailclient and mutt will alert me whenever new mail has arrived in any mailfolder I have configured. The thing is, that mutt continously signals me of new mail in all my folders, when in reality nothing has entered there.
I'm guessing it's using recent messages-counters to do it, which are currently broken in Dovecot.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:11:05PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 09:55, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
I am using mutt as my mailclient and mutt will alert me whenever new mail has arrived in any mailfolder I have configured. The thing is, that mutt continously signals me of new mail in all my folders, when in reality nothing has entered there.
I'm guessing it's using recent messages-counters to do it, which are currently broken in Dovecot.
That sounds like the problem indeed. However, that almost seems like a vital part of a imap/pop3 server here. Doesn't this almost render dovecut unusable for a large majority of users ? Surely 'mutt' isn't the only MUA that uses this system.
Have they been broken long already and is there any idea on when they might be ok again? Thanks.
/Stephan
-- Stephan van Beerschoten [KeyID: 0x08F12864] "If you are adminstering UNIX systems and don't master tools such as make, shell, and perl, then you are working too hard." -- Wietse Venema. Fri, 12 Dec 2003
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 22:28, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
I'm guessing it's using recent messages-counters to do it, which are currently broken in Dovecot.
That sounds like the problem indeed. However, that almost seems like a vital part of a imap/pop3 server here. Doesn't this almost render dovecut unusable for a large majority of users ? Surely 'mutt' isn't the only MUA that uses this system.
Have they been broken long already and is there any idea on when they might be ok again? Thanks.
Actually they should be working fine as long as you're not using INDEX=MEMORY or for some other reason deleting index files. Also most clients don't really use recent counters for anything so it hasn't been too much of a problem anyway..
I have a nice plan to fix them well, but I'd rather do it after the larger changes I'm currently doing.
participants (2)
-
Stephan van Beerschoten
-
Timo Sirainen