[Dovecot] OS X Mail.app 2 (Tiger) + dovecot -> new mail count doubled

Xavier Beaudouin kiwi at oav.net
Thu Jul 14 13:49:58 EEST 2005


Le 8 juil. 05 à 10:05, Xavier Beaudouin a écrit :

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> Le 8 juil. 05 à 09:41, Alan Schmitt a écrit :
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I've noticed a strange bug with Mail.app 2 (from OS X.4) and  
>> dovecot, and I'm trying to identify where it comes from. I have a  
>> bunch of mailboxes that can receive new mail (delivered by  
>> procmail) and I have Mail set up as to automatically synchronize  
>> all maiboxes. When I start up Mail, the count for new mail is  
>> doubled in every mailbox that I have not seen yet. Looking at a  
>> mailbox restores the correct count (mail is not actually  
>> duplicated, it's just the new mail counter that is wrong).
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this? Would this bug be from Mail.app or from  
>> dovecot? (I suspect the former.)
>>
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> I suspect this is Mail.app 2. Because I have same bug using courier- 
> imap...

Seems that this have been fixed on latest update for Tiger.

Mail.app 2.0.2 (732/733) now show corrects numbers of new mail in  
folders for me since yesterday after my upgrade...
So if you are not using 10.4.2, then for this cosmetic problem :)

/Xavier


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