Hi,

I’m running Dovecot 2.2.19 with Maildir as storage and LDA for delivery.

I noticed that if I set mailbox_list_index=yes and maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes when I login via IMAP the STATUS command don’t “see” new messages in sub-folders (like Spam).

Example, a new message as arrived in Spam folder (I can see in Maildir/new/) but IMAP STATUS don’t see it:

. STATUS Spam (MESSAGES UNSEEN)

• STATUS Spam (MESSAGES 139 UNSEEN 0)

(in this case the date of “dovecot.list.index” files is not updated)

If I comment out mailbox_list_index=yes or maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes I can see the new message:

. STATUS Spam (MESSAGES UNSEEN)

• STATUS Spam (MESSAGES 140 UNSEEN 1)

(in this case the date of “dovecot.list.index” files is updated after the STATUS command)

Instead the SELECT command works fine always.

An importante note, my dovecot LDA configuration (on MX servers) don’t update index files:

protocol lda { mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY mail_plugins = quota acl expire fts fts_solr zlib sieve }

These because I need to filter incoming email via Sieve but since I cannot use LMTP (and Director) on MX (but I have Director for POP/IMAP access) the only way for not corrupting dovecot.index files is not update their on delivery emails.

But reading http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir this shouldn’t be a problem (Optimizations “maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes” … It's still safe to deliver new mails to new/ …) since MX deliver new emails in new/.

Is a Dovecot limit or is a problem of my configuration? Thanks

my configuration:

# 2.2.19 # Pigeonhole version 0.4.9 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 5 mins auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_cache_ttl = 20 mins auth_master_user_separator = * auth_worker_max_count = 50 deliver_log_format = msgid=%m, from=%f, subject="%s": %$ dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext sqlquota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 89 first_valid_uid = 89 imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins imap_logout_format = in=%i out=%o session=<%{session}> last_valid_gid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = 10.96.3.156 login_trusted_networks = 10.0.0.0/24 mail_fsync = always mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = quota acl expire fts fts_solr zlib mailbox_list_index = yes maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate vnd.dovecot.duplicate mmap_disable = yes namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-deny-sql.conf.ext deny = yes driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/extra/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl antispam_backend = mailtrain antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/bin/sa-learn antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_spam = Spam antispam_trash = Trash expire = Trash expire2 = Spam expire_dict = proxy::expire fts = solr fts_solr = url=http://10.0.0.1:8983/solr/ quota = maildir:UserQuota quota2 = dict:Quota Usage::noenforcing:proxy::sqlquota quota_grace = 10M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/before.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.duplicate -vacation zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_fast_size_lookups = yes pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s, bytes=%i/%o, session=<%{session}> protocols = imap pop3 sieve sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail service auth { client_limit = 6524 unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service dict { process_limit = 500 unix_listener dict { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /etc/dovecot/scripts/imap-postlogin.sh unix_listener imap-postlogin { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } user = vpopmail } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 5000 service_count = 100 vsz_limit = 384 M } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 } service pop3-postlogin { executable = script-login /etc/dovecot/scripts/pop3-postlogin.sh unix_listener pop3-postlogin { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } user = vpopmail } service pop3 { executable = pop3 pop3-postlogin process_limit = 1024 service_count = 100 } service quota-warning { executable = script /etc/dovecot/scripts/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vpopmail } user = vpopmail } ssl_cert =

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