[Dovecot] Strange Mail Problem
I submitted this question to the Postfix maillist and they suggested that I post to this one.
Here's my issue:
I have a Postifx email system running on a CentOS 4 box, with Dovecot pop3 and imap. Last week, one of my users reported to me that about a dozen emails suddenly showed up in his in box (as unread messages), but none of them were addressed to him. Under further investigation, they turned out to be from another user's inbox. The messages were all over a month old. How could mail simply show up in one inbox from another user's? We're using Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5. Anyone else run into issues like this?
*Jason Baker */IT Coordinator/
*Glastender Inc.* 5400 North Michigan Road Saginaw, Michigan 48604 USA 800.748.0423 Phone: 989.752.4275 ext. 228 Fax: 989.752.4444 www.glastender.com http://www.glastender.com
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On Wednesday, May 2 at 09:13 AM, quoth Jason Baker:
I have a Postifx email system running on a CentOS 4 box, with Dovecot pop3 and imap. Last week, one of my users reported to me that about a dozen emails suddenly showed up in his in box (as unread messages), but none of them were addressed to him. Under further investigation, they turned out to be from another user's inbox. The messages were all over a month old. How could mail simply show up in one inbox from another user's? We're using Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5. Anyone else run into issues like this?
What version of Dovecot? What config options?
~Kyle
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended---and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. -- Robert Frost
Sorry, here it is: Version: dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4
## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file
imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * imaps_listen = * pop3s_listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 max_mail_processes = 2056 mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_process_size = 512 auth_user = root auth_count = 10 auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes
*Jason Baker */IT Coordinator/
*Glastender Inc.* 5400 North Michigan Road Saginaw, Michigan 48604 USA 800.748.0423 Phone: 989.752.4275 ext. 228 Fax: 989.752.4444 www.glastender.com http://www.glastender.com
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT$ d- s: a C++$ LU+++$ P+ L++>L++++ !E--- W+++ N o? K? w !O M !V PS PE++ Y? PGP- t 5? X+ R+ tv+ b- DI-- D++ G e+ h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Wednesday, May 2 at 09:13 AM, quoth Jason Baker:
I have a Postifx email system running on a CentOS 4 box, with Dovecot pop3 and imap. Last week, one of my users reported to me that about a dozen emails suddenly showed up in his in box (as unread messages), but none of them were addressed to him. Under further investigation, they turned out to be from another user's inbox. The messages were all over a month old. How could mail simply show up in one inbox from another user's? We're using Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5. Anyone else run into issues like this?
What version of Dovecot? What config options?
~Kyle
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 09:13 -0400, Jason Baker wrote:
I submitted this question to the Postfix maillist and they suggested that I post to this one.
Here's my issue:
I have a Postifx email system running on a CentOS 4 box, with Dovecot pop3 and imap. Last week, one of my users reported to me that about a dozen emails suddenly showed up in his in box (as unread messages), but none of them were addressed to him. Under further investigation, they turned out to be from another user's inbox. The messages were all over a month old. How could mail simply show up in one inbox from another user's? We're using Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5. Anyone else run into issues like this?
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Charles Marcus
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Jason Baker
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Kyle Wheeler
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Timo Sirainen