[Dovecot] EXPUNGE delay

Eugene genie at geniechka.ru
Mon Mar 3 12:51:43 EET 2008


Hello Timo,

From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss at iki.fi>
> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:36 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > So I guess the question is if Dovecot should first synchronize the
> > mailbox and only then perform EXPUNGE. This is allowed by IMAP, but it
> > would require Dovecot to do two mailbox synchronizations for each
> > EXPUNGE. I'd rather not do that but maybe Outlook is big enough user
> > that it should be changed...
> Or of course Dovecot could just do another EXPUNGE if the first one
> noticed that some messages got \Deleted flags. I'll add to v1.1 todo
> list.

That would be nice. The delete and expunge commands were indeed issued by 
different IMAP-connections.

Was the 1.0.7 version handling the updates differently? Because I never had 
such delay with another account (different server, same dovecot 
configuration, same Outlook installation).

Best wishes
Eugene



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