[Dovecot] phantom new mail (mailboxes keep on being reported as having new mail)

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:03 +0200, Christoph Borsbach wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 14:02:53 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 20:41 +0200, Grobian wrote:
> > > This problem gets rather annoying.  Isn't there anything that I can try
> > > to resolve this?  It dovecot can't work so well with its indices, is
> > > there an option to disable them?  I keep on deleting those files to get
> > > rid of phantom new mail.
..
> I can also confirm this Problem with Dovecot1.0b3, Postfix, procmail and
> maildir on a local filesystem (XFS) using Gentoo Linux. Clients are Thunderbird, mutt and
> Apple Mail.

What exactly does this mean with Thunderbird and Apple Mail? As far as I
know they have no "there's no mail" announcements like mutt, but only
show the number of mails in mailboxes?

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