[Dovecot] pop3 messages not deleted

[Chris Wakelin]

Can't help you much with POP I'm afraid, I've not got around to testing 
it yet (I'm a bit prejudiced against POP users in a University 
environment where IMAP makes much more sense - store it on our server, 
we back it up for you, you can access it from anywhere etc.)

Have you tried opening the same mailbox with IMAP? Try something like

telnet <server> 143
x LOGIN <username> "<password>"
x SELECT INBOX
x LOGOUT

and see how many messages it reports.

I gather from your second message that you're using Maildirs rather than 
mbox (if not, upgrade to dovecot-stable-20050427, especially if your 
mboxes have the Washington IMAP pseudo-message at the top).

It may also be worth deleting the indexes (in the .imap directory, I 
think - can't remember for sure in Maildirs) see doc/index.txt and 
doc/mail-storages.txt

Best Wishes,
Chris

Marten Lehmann wrote:
> Extra info: I'm working with the 20050426 release of dovecot-1.0-stable.

 >> Hello,

 >> I'm currently experiencing, that 0 messages are shown at the
 >> pop3-prompt:
 >>
 >> list
 >> +OK 0 messages:
 >> .
 >>
 >> But the cur-folder containes 74 files. How can this happen? Why
 >> aren't they removed physically?

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