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

[Christoph Borsbach]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 19:36:08 +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.

Thanks a lot, now (..that i've managed to upgrade to beta5) it works
very well!