[Dovecot] Mailbox consistency with multiple clients

Yates Ian Mr (ITCS) I.Yates at uea.ac.uk
Mon Sep 22 12:30:12 EEST 2008


Sorry I got the previous version wrong, we had no problems with multiple
clients when using dovecot 1.0.8

I.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: dovecot-bounces+i.yates=uea.ac.uk at dovecot.org 
>[mailto:dovecot-bounces+i.yates=uea.ac.uk at dovecot.org] On 
>Behalf Of Yates Ian Mr (ITCS)
>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:07 PM
>To: Dovecot Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox consistency with multiple clients
>
>There's a mix of the following:
>	Outlook
>	Outlook express
>	Thunderbird
>	Squirrelmail (webmail) 
>
>But we tried getting the users sharing the account to use just 
>one client (squirrelmail) and they were still reporting the problem?!
>
>I forgot to say that they were working this way with no 
>problems on dovecot 1.0.2 but since the migration to 1.1.3 
>we've had this problem.
>
>In an effort to help the situation I changed the following 
>settings from the original, from enabling lazy writes to disabling:
>mbox_dirty_syncs: no
>mbox_lazy_writes: no
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: dovecot-bounces+i.yates=uea.ac.uk at dovecot.org
>>[mailto:dovecot-bounces+i.yates=uea.ac.uk at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of 
>>Timo Sirainen
>>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:39 AM
>>To: Dovecot Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox consistency with multiple clients
>>
>>On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 11:29 +0100, Yates Ian Mr (ITCS) wrote:
>>> We're experiencing a problem with a shared account, where multiple 
>>> users are accessing it at the same time there seems to be a problem 
>>> where the view one user sees is not the same as the other
>>users.  This
>>> includes experiences such as deleted mail reappearing, moved
>>mail not
>>> arriving at a destination.
>>
>>What client? I'd guess this is a client issue. Some are worse than 
>>others at noticing changes done by other clients.
>>
>>
>


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