[Dovecot] REpeated POP3 mail
I know I have brought this up before.
Question: How can one debug the pop3 process from repeated e-mail ?
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:53:38PM +0000, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 03:38 -0600, The Doctor wrote:
Question: How can one debug the pop3 process from repeated e-mail ?
You mean POP3 client keeps downloading the same mail again? Usually seems to be Outlook bug..
I am seeing this with M$ Outlook/OE/Mail/Entourage & Apple Mail.
Can this be debugged?
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On 5.11.2010, at 22.08, The Doctor wrote:
You mean POP3 client keeps downloading the same mail again? Usually seems to be Outlook bug..
I am seeing this with M$ Outlook/OE/Mail/Entourage & Apple Mail.
Can this be debugged?
Yes, it can. But before doing anything, dovecot -n output please.
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:43:08AM +0000, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 5.11.2010, at 22.08, The Doctor wrote:
You mean POP3 client keeps downloading the same mail again? Usually seems to be Outlook bug..
I am seeing this with M$ Outlook/OE/Mail/Entourage & Apple Mail.
Can this be debugged?
Yes, it can. But before doing anything, dovecot -n output please.
# 2.0.6: /usr/dovecot2/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: BSD/OS 4.3 i386 doveconf: Warning: Dovecot was last started using /usr/dovecot2/etc/dovecot/dovecot2.conf, but this config is /usr/dovecot2/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf auth_mechanisms = plain login ntlm base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u namespace { location = prefix = type = public } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/master.passwd driver = passwd-file } passdb { args = /etc/master.passwd driver = passwd-file } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/master.passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size mail_log_group_events = no } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mode = 0600 user = } user = $default_internal_user } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director } service imap { process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 256 M } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } ssl_cert =
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On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 22:13 -0600, The Doctor wrote:
You mean POP3 client keeps downloading the same mail again? Usually seems to be Outlook bug..
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Could be because of mbox. If the mbox UIDs change, the POP3 UIDLs change. Dovecot should log errors if this happens though.
pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
You could add ", uidl=%u" to this. It's intended to make it easier to figure out if the UIDLs are changing or if the client is just being broken. Then once someone redownloads messages, grep for their last logout lines and show me what they contain (basically it'll say uidl=old/new and previous line's "new" should match the next line's "old" value).
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