January 2006 - dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Hi. > > I'm running 1.0alpha5 on FreeBSD 5.3. I'm using mbox mailboxes. > > I keep getting: > > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) > Jan 8 18:53:13 saigo dovecot: child 88663 (imap) killed with signal 6 This happens all the time with one specific mbox? Could you send it and the index files to me? You could put the mbox though http://dovecot.org/tools/mboxcrypt.pl

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[Dovecot] Running dovecot-lda
by Linus Nordberg 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning on setting up dovecot with dovecot-lda, for sieve support. What does the list have to say about versions to use? I prefer stability over features but sieve has to be there. Does anybody use the combination dovecot 1.0 alpha5 and dovecot-lda 0.1 with success or would you recommend running -lda from CVS? If so, is there any point in time that's better than another? And, will dovecot 1.0 alpha5 do for -lda from CVS? Finally, are there any release plans for dovecot-lda that can be shared? Thanks, -- Linus

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. How do I compile the CVS version? "configure" seems to be missing. I tried downloading the snapshot from 20060105 but that fails make: ~ main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory main.c: In function `main_init': main.c:162: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_register' main.c: In function `main_deinit': main.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_unregister' make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/imap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 The 20060107 snapshot won't ./configure : configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-sql/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-auth/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-charset/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-dict/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-imap/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-mail/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-ntlm/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-settings/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/maildir/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/mbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/dbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/subscription-file/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/register/Makefile config.status: creating src/auth/Makefile config.status: error: cannot find input file: src/dict/Makefile.in [root@www dovecot-1.0.alpha5]# make cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status config.h config.status: creating config.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' Making all in lib make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' Makefile:423: .deps/base64.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:424: .deps/bsearch-insert-pos.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:425: .deps/buffer.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:426: .deps/compat.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:427: .deps/data-stack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:428: .deps/env-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:429: .deps/failures.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:430: .deps/fd-close-on-exec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:431: .deps/fd-set-nonblock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:432: .deps/fdpass.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:433: .deps/file-cache.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:434: .deps/file-dotlock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:435: .deps/file-lock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:436: .deps/file-set-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:437: .deps/hash.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:438: .deps/hex-binary.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:439: .deps/hex-dec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:440: .deps/hmac-md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:441: .deps/home-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:442: .deps/hostpid.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:443: .deps/imem.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:444: .deps/ioloop-epoll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:445: .deps/ioloop-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:446: .deps/ioloop-notify-dn.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:447: .deps/ioloop-notify-inotify.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:448: .deps/ioloop-notify-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:449: .deps/ioloop-notify-none.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:450: .deps/ioloop-poll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:451: .deps/ioloop-select.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:452: .deps/ioloop.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:453: .deps/iostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:454: .deps/istream-data.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:455: .deps/istream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:456: .deps/istream-limit.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:457: .deps/istream-mmap.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:458: .deps/istream-seekable.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:459: .deps/istream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:460: .deps/lib-signals.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:461: .deps/lib.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:462: .deps/md4.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:463: .deps/md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:464: .deps/mempool-alloconly.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:465: .deps/mempool-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:466: .deps/mempool-system.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:467: .deps/mempool-unsafe-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:468: .deps/mempool.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:469: .deps/mkdir-parents.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:470: .deps/mmap-anon.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:471: .deps/mmap-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:472: .deps/module-dir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:473: .deps/network.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:474: .deps/ostream-crlf.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:475: .deps/ostream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:476: .deps/ostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:477: .deps/primes.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:478: .deps/printf-upper-bound.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:479: .deps/process-title.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:480: .deps/randgen.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:481: .deps/read-full.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:482: .deps/restrict-access.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:483: .deps/restrict-process-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:484: .deps/safe-memset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:485: .deps/safe-mkdir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:486: .deps/sendfile-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:487: .deps/seq-range-array.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:488: .deps/sha1.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:489: .deps/str-sanitize.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:490: .deps/str.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:491: .deps/strescape.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:492: .deps/strfuncs.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:493: .deps/unix-socket-create.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:494: .deps/unlink-directory.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:495: .deps/unlink-lockfiles.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:496: .deps/utc-mktime.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:497: .deps/utc-offset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:498: .deps/var-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:499: .deps/write-full.Po: No such file or directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/write-full.Po'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 It seems like the code is horribly broken. All of the nightly snapshots except for 20060107 (which won't configure) fail with "main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory" it does this for src/imap/main.c AND src/pop3/main.c . I tried commenting out any lines that had to do with "dict-client.h" "dict_client_register();" and "dict_client_unregister();" inside the two files and it would compile those files but it would fail in src/deliver claiming that it is too old? make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' ~ deliver.c:4:2: #error This program is somewhat out of date, use dovecot-lda instead make[3]: *** [deliver.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Documentation updates in Wiki
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

I started writing a new front page for wiki.dovecot.org: http://wiki.dovecot.org/NewIndex This is partially based on the comments in Documentation thread starting from here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-July/008076.html "A simple Dovecot installation" section is pretty much finished from my point of view. I hope it's clear enough for anyone wanting to install a working Dovecot server. Suggestions are welcome of course. You're also welcome to just edit the pages directly. I'll get email notifications of all page changes, so if I see changes that I don't think belong in there, I'll just remove them and maybe move them elsewhere (so don't add too much text without asking :). I'm not sure about what exactly should be visible in the front page. Currently there's probably too much. But I think it's better to show more than too little, so that new people can just look at the page and quickly pick up the interesting keywords without having to click through multiple pages. Maybe most of the sub-sections in "full guide" section could be listed only under those root sections. So that it becomes something like: * Starting guidelines * Authentication configuration * Mail configuration * Namespaces * Shared folders * SSL * POP3 * Dovecot LDA * Full configuration file reference * Examples / Scenarios I'd leave namespaces and shared folders there so that they can be easily found. I'm not sure where to put "full configuration file reference" or what exactly to call it. The same goes for Examples/Scenarios. Tuning should maybe be only part of "full guide". "Generic information about mail servers" is meant for discussion of mail server components, protocols, etc. without being too much Dovecot-specific. It's partially for "mail server newbies", but also would contain some "hard core" information about how things really work (mailbox format and user authentication especially). Anyway, if you have time please start adding the missing pages and writing to them. Even if you only give a FIXME-list that others can then fill out :) My school starts again at monday, and I'll be too busy to do anything else than that and work for the rest of January (after that only finals, yay).

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[Dovecot] fastbind patch -> auth_bind_userdn patch (attached)
by Geff 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Let me know how you like this one. This assumes one config parameter. The non-null of auth_bind_userdn overrides auth_bind = yes. I'm using this patch now on cvs head. Comments are always welcome. Thanks much, Geff

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[Dovecot] Questions regarding quota
by Stian Jordet 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I have some trouble trying to test the quota plugin. First off all, it says in the wiki: "Dovecot 1.0 supports quota using a quota plugin. It's currently discussed in Dovecot LDA page and it supports only very simple quota calculation which is suitable only for mboxes. Maildir++ quota support will come later." Does that mean that it won't work at all with Maildir++, or just that it's slow? Second; there are two plugins? One in src/plugins/quota and one ine src/plugins/imap-quota. What's the difference? Is one for imap-quota and the other for fs-quota? (I would love that!) But third and most importantly; I can't get it too work. I'm using CVS from tonight (which fixed the missing symbol bug). But neither when I'm using static userdb nor LDAP as explained in the wiki I can't get it to work. I'm not really sure of the getquota syntax, but whatever I try, I get: a OK No quota. So please, enlighten me! :) Best regards, Stian

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

I am resending this because I have not gotten a response in a few days. Help is appreciated! Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:50 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > I recently upgraded from dovecot 0.9x to 1.0.5-Aplha and now when ever > folders are opened (in IMAP), it keeps saying invalid mbox files. It worked > fine in 0.99.x. It is detecting the right mbox files because it lists the > folders and the subscriptions correctly. I am using "default_mail_env > = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in the config file, but I get the same > error with "Detect automatically". It generates nothing in the log files > so I am lost!! I tried both outlook and thunderbird but same results. > > Invalid mbox file error comes only if the first line of the mbox file > isn't valid. What does it look like? It should be something like: > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > 0.99.x Dovecot didn't accept broken From-lines either, but it might have > had slightly different logic in checking what's valid and what's not. Here is a sample file generated by postfix. Note: it is NOT censored or edited. What you see is the real thing. >From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18^M Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Received: from mail.fuelcellstore.com ([207.174.23.2]) by rwcrgwc55.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406013417.LNRM3313.rwcrgwc55.attbi.com(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> for <haroutetoot(a)attbi.com>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:34:17 +0000 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au [203.59.141.98] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id A64E1BA01F8; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:50:22 -0700 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (10.0.0.13 [10.0.0.13]) by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 1KDV523W; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:25 +0800 Received: by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (Microsoft Exchange Connector for POP3 Mailboxes 4.50.2113) with SMTP (Global POP3 Download) id MSG04062002-084518-2751.MMD@SAA01; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:18 +0800 Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Delivered-To: saa(a)iinet.net.au Received: (qmail 28777 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:40 -0000 Delivered-To: saa-saleebaadamscomau-n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au X-Envelope-To: <n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au> Received: (qmail 28767 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.fuelcellstore.com) (207.174.23.2) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id AD4D1690192; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:11:57 -0700 Received: from jason ([12.81.167.50]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406001120.RBFM8815.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@jason>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:11:20 +0000 Reply-To: fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com From: "fuelcell" <fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com> To: list(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Subject: FuelCellStore.com Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:11:08 -0700 Message-ID: <001d01c1dcff$8f6c5fa0$cacbfea9@jason> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal X-Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Precedence: bulk Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-IMAPbase: 1135543792 1 Status: O X-UID: 1 Content-Length: 150475 X-Keywords: Dear Fuel Cell Enthusiast,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com would like to tell you about several new fuel cell products and our redesigned website. ^M ^M * ^M One of which is the new 500W unit that is available for residential back up power, or remote low power primary needs. These units can be stacked up to 1500W and self-starts upon grid failure ~V provi ding critical power for nominal apparatus and remote applications. You will find a link to this product at www.fuelcellstore.com^M * ^M Bench Top Methanol Reformer capable of generating ultra-pure hydrogen from methanol and water for University and Research Labs. Please reply for more information. ^M * ^M A fuel cell powered remote control car with metal hydride storage. ^M ^M FuelCellStore.com has many new educational products and a new nav bar to help you find the products you are looking for. Please check out our Student and Teacher section at www.fuelcellstore.com/products.htm l^M Please let us know what you think of the new site structure and any feedback would be great. ^M ^M You have received this message because you have contacted fuelcellstore.com in the past and asked to receive FuelCellStore.com news. If you would like to unsubscribe from our mailing please reply to this mes sage with unsubscribe in the subject heading. ^M ^M Sincerely,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com^M PO Box 4038^M Boulder, CO 80306-4038^M Harout Hedeshian harout(a)hedeshian.net 720 - 261 - 3548

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. Okay. Thanks. I will try getting the CVS version. Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Passwd file location
by Tracy Phillips 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I am trying to access my passwd file like this: passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/vmail/%d/passwd } Is that not possible. I keep getting an error when trying to login. I do not get much in my log files to help me debug it. Thanks, Tracy

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[Dovecot] FETCH FLAGS in response to SORT and SEARCH commands
by Michael Doppler 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hi, I am getting IMAP FETCH FLAGS in response to SORT and SEARCH commands for my INBOX. See the following transcript between dovecot (marked with S:) and an imap client (marked with C:) for an example SEARCH command. C: A004 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL TEXT {4} C: test S: + OK S: * SEARCH 5 13 20 21 22 23 24 30 37 39 56 64 77 82 93 94 96 103 109 110 118 135 136 158 160 165 171 174 175 177 180 181 190 198 207 209 210 212 220 221 233 237 242 248 250 253 256 257 261 270 278 281 294 296 301 302 303 304 305 309 310 317 318 320 323 330 331 333 342 343 352 355 356 357 365 387 390 394 407 412 416 426 428 432 437 450 451 454 459 460 465 468 470 477 482 484 488 493 500 522 524 526 529 530 537 541 571 575 580 597 604 666 689 730 738 741 742 743 746 750 751 752 753 754 755 758 759 760 762 763 764 766 767 768 770 772 773 782 788 797 798 829 831 832 835 836 842 854 863 864 865 866 868 869 871 874 880 881 891 943 944 945 954 957 962 963 964 965 968 970 971 973 974 985 986 987 S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: A004 OK Search completed Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail seem to be able to cope with this, but squirrelmail chokes when it receives those flags. I get them only for my INBOX and not for other folders like sent mail, so the behaivour seems to depend on the content of the folder. It occurrs at least with dovecot 1.0alpha4 and 1.0alpha5 using maildir. I have not tested other versions / mbox format. Is this behaviour expected? regards, Michael

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