[Dovecot] dovecot pop3s delivers new messages as old (unread) messages ...

[James Sun]

I just set up dovecot on fedora core 3 with only pop3s protocol
enabled.  On my client machine, I use fetchmail to get the mail and
then go through procmail and eventually ready by mutt.

Everything seems to work fine, except that all new emails are marked
old unread emails (i.e., marked with 'O' flag instead of 'N').  This
is annoying because some open source lists are so large that I really
rely on the "N" flag to read my emails.

I tested the same client setting with gmail and my isp (comcast) pop3
accounts.  They work fine - new mails are marked as "N".  This makes
me suspect dovecot is not set up correctly or something on the pop3
server machine is not right.

Anybody has an idea?

Thanks in advance.

Jun

Here are more detailed info:

-bash-3.00# rpm -qa | grep dovecot
dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3

/etc/dovecot.conf:
----------------------------
protocols = pop3s
imap_listen = [::]
pop3_listen = [::]
imaps_listen = [::]
pop3s_listen = [::]
ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login
login = imap
login = pop3
mbox_locks = fcntl
auth = default
auth_mechanisms = plain
auth_userdb = passwd
auth_passdb = pam
auth_user = root
auth_verbose = no

.fetchmailrc on client machine
--------------------------------------
poll mypop.server.com
        protocol pop3
        user "jsun"
        password "xxxx"
        is jsun here
        ssl