[Dovecot] dovecot and thunderbird

Tomi Hakala tomi.hakala at clinet.fi
Thu Apr 27 07:59:33 EEST 2006


Mark Davies wrote:
> When using thunderbird as the imap client sometimes when messages are moved 
> from the inbox to other folders (including Trash) they shortly thereafter 
> reappear in the inbox - this can happen multiple times to the same message.
> We have multiple namespaces set up so that inbox is mbox format in 

Set "mbox_lazy_writes = no" in dovecot.conf and see if it helps, I have
seen messages to forget their Status change and disabling lazy writes
fixed that. It may cause a bit more disk IO if you are not using deliver
as your LDA but it is worthwhile to try.


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