[Dovecot] Outlook express confusion

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Apr 8 22:21:26 EEST 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:55 +0100, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
> Right, stop me if I am wrong here as I am no way near an expert on IMAP.
> As far as I can tell after the EXPUNGE results dovecot gives an EXISTS
> result, now from what I am observing dovecot is saying the number of
> mails that were available before the expunge in the exists result after
> the expunge.  OE gets confused by this and invents the missing
> ones...phew!

That would explain it, but Dovecot shouldn't be sending EXISTS after
EXPUNGE unless new mails have arrived. You were able to make it send
EXISTS without new mails coming? I kept trying expunges for a while and
also sending new mails, but couldn't make it send wrong replies..

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