Charles Marcus wrote:

On 3/1/2009 2:08 PM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

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We've been using an imap(s) dovecot server for a while on an ubuntu 8.04.2 and we noted that tags set by thunderbird ("important", "to do", etc.) are almost always lost, i.e., when connecting to the same imap account from another machine, the tags are not there anymore... this always happens for the Inbox, and seldomly for other imap folders... anyone else experiencing this?

Sorry, my crystal ball is currently down for repairs...

:-D

So, will need for you to provide some actual details that might give a hint as to the problem. I think I recall some problems like these with certain versions of dovecot...

OK, first of all, I think the version will help:

dovecot --version 1.0.10

what other information can I provide?

thanks in advance Lorenzo

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Charles Marcus wrote:

On 3/2/2009, Lorenzo Bettini (bettini@dsi.unifi.it) wrote:

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what other information can I provide?

dovecot -n output might help, but you are using an older version, I'd first try upgrading... there have been a ton of fixes since the version you're running...

Only, a new version 1.1.12 is imminent, so you might just wait for that...

OK, in the meanwhile, here's the output:

1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often used insecurely so it is now deprecated, use mail_access_groups or mail_privileged_group instead log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_access_groups: mail auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Mar 1, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

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We've been using an imap(s) dovecot server for a while on an ubuntu 8.04.2 and we noted that tags set by thunderbird ("important", "to do", etc.) are almost always lost, i.e., when connecting to the same imap account from another machine, the tags are not there anymore... this always happens for the Inbox, and seldomly for other imap folders... anyone else experiencing this?

Are you using mbox files? Sounds like the same problem as "Custom flags in v1.0.15" a few days ago. Upgrading to v1.1 fixed that. Or setting mbox_lazy_writes=no.

Hi there

I checked in our dovecot.conf and there was

#mbox_lazy_writes=yes

i.e., it was commented, and probably defaults to yes. I changed it into

mbox_lazy_writes=no

restarted dovecot, and did a quick test with two machines, and it looks like it's working now! :-)

I want to do some other tests and then get back to you

thanks a lot for now :-) cheers Lorenzo

-- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DI, Univ. Torino ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it MUSIC: http://www.purplesucker.com http://www.myspace.com/supertrouperabba BLOGS: http://tronprog.blogspot.com http://longlivemusic.blogspot.com http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt http://www.gnu.org/software/gengen http://doublecpp.sourceforge.net