[Dovecot] 1.0-stable loses flag changes sometimes?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 23 23:53:13 EEST 2005


On 15.5.2005, at 00:04, Chris Wakelin wrote:

> I've also re-run my test69 test (three messages delivered at once 
> whilst idle) using test70 and I get the same as before. This time I've 
> included an extra flag fetch first so you can see the extra fetch 
> responses really are bogus, the flags haven't changed.
..
> This doesn't happen with dovecot-stable. I'm wondering whether it 
> might be a different issue, after all. If it's only giving spurious 
> but correct responses, then I guess a real client/user wouldn't 
> notice.

I don't think it's a problem, but unexpected things usually tell that 
there's a bug :)

This was caused by "keyword resets" being written to transaction log 
file using sequence numbers, but later being treated as UIDs. So the 
bug could have erased some keywords, or just give these extra 
FLAGS-replies for those messages..
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