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

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

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.
> 
> On 09-03-2006 20:21:26 +0100, Grobian wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > My setup is as follows:
> > - regular x86 box
> > - running Exim and Dovecot
> > - Exim saves new mail in maildir format in a local filesystem
> >   /mail/user/blabla
> > - Dovecot reads and serves IMAP from local filesystem /mail/user/blabla
> > - client is Mutt and/or Thunderbird from any OS (Mac, Linux, Windows)
> >   via IMAP

FTR, I can confirm this with Fedora Core 4/i386 and 5/i386, sendmail,
mbox, and Evolution 2.2.3 and 2.6.0. Backing down to 1.0 beta 2 seemed
to stop it, but we'll see for how long...

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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