[Dovecot] Issues w/ Apple devices after migration to dovecot
Hi guys. Recently we've moved our old (and I mean _really_ old) mailserver to a new hardware. Since I had quite some time on my hands, I decided to switch from courier to dovecot. Transition went pretty smoothly and the users experienced just a few hours' blackout.
Only trouble now is that, after re-configuring some IOS handsets and tablets, not all messages are displayed correctly. For example, I had a long existing mailbox (roughly 1600 emails in INBOX and about a dozen other folders) that showed up perfectly on my iphone. Now it's been synced to the new dovecot server via imap and a whole month of messages seems to be missing. I checked on the server, via webmail and with outlook and everything is where it should be. The problem shows up on Apple devices (same thing happened on a couple of ipads).
I haven't tried rebuilding the index or wiping out a phone to see if that resolves the problem, but before I do that I'd like to know if anyone experienced the same issue and how they fixed it
Thanks!
Kurt
On 1.2.2012, at 1.16, Armistead, Kurt wrote:
Recently we've moved our old (and I mean _really_ old) mailserver to a new hardware. Since I had quite some time on my hands, I decided to switch from courier to dovecot. Transition went pretty smoothly and the users experienced just a few hours' blackout.
Only trouble now is that, after re-configuring some IOS handsets and tablets, not all messages are displayed correctly.
Did you use the courier-dovecot-migrate.pl script? If not, Dovecot set new IMAP UIDVALIDITY and UID numbers to mails and the problems are most likely related to clients not realizing that they should drop their internal caches.
On Wed, February 1, 2012 12:33 am, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 1.2.2012, at 1.16, Armistead, Kurt wrote:
Recently we've moved our old (and I mean _really_ old) mailserver to a new hardware. Since I had quite some time on my hands, I decided to switch from courier to dovecot. Transition went pretty smoothly and the users experienced just a few hours' blackout.
Only trouble now is that, after re-configuring some IOS handsets and tablets, not all messages are displayed correctly.
Did you use the courier-dovecot-migrate.pl script? If not, Dovecot set new IMAP UIDVALIDITY and UID numbers to mails and the problems are most likely related to clients not realizing that they should drop their internal caches.
I sure did and it reported no issues.
Kurt
On 1.2.2012, at 9.48, Armistead, Kurt wrote:
On Wed, February 1, 2012 12:33 am, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 1.2.2012, at 1.16, Armistead, Kurt wrote:
Recently we've moved our old (and I mean _really_ old) mailserver to a new hardware. Since I had quite some time on my hands, I decided to switch from courier to dovecot. Transition went pretty smoothly and the users experienced just a few hours' blackout.
Only trouble now is that, after re-configuring some IOS handsets and tablets, not all messages are displayed correctly.
Did you use the courier-dovecot-migrate.pl script? If not, Dovecot set new IMAP UIDVALIDITY and UID numbers to mails and the problems are most likely related to clients not realizing that they should drop their internal caches.
I sure did and it reported no issues.
Then I have no idea. Clients shouldn't have noticed any differences between old and new server. If you find a bug in something from Dovecot's side, let me know.
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Armistead, Kurt
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Timo Sirainen