[Dovecot] phantom new mail (mailboxes keep on being reported as
having new mail)
Grobian
grobian at gentoo.org
Sun Apr 2 21:00:26 EEST 2006
On 02-04-2006 20:36:08 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 20:21 +0100, Grobian wrote:
> > I'm using dovecot 1.0_beta3 on Gentoo Linux, and am experiencing a
> > problem of what I call 'phantom mail'. This problem I have for a long
> > time (pre 1.0), but at the moment I'm using 1.0_beta3 and the problem
> > still is in there.
>
> The problem was that STATUS command synchronized the index and maildir,
> so that the next time mailbox was opened Dovecot thought the new/
> directory was already synchronized so it didn't bother looking into it.
> But that also meant that it didn't move the mails to cur/ and their
> recent flag state was kept..
>
> Fixed now in CVS, and upcoming beta4.
Ok, cool and thanks! Is beta4 long away? Otherwise I might try a
nightly/CVS build to see if it really fixes the problem for me.
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