[Dovecot] Phone cannot receive mail suddenly

[Robin Atwood]

On Tuesday 03 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 20:26 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote:
> > Starting at midnight Feb 1 my phone can no longer fetch mail from
> > Dovecot. It endlessly connects and reconnects as you can see in the log
> > below. I have restarted dovecot, the phone, deleted /home/robinmail/mail,
> > all to no avail. I have turned on debug output but it does not tell me
> > anymore. I can connect and see the folder using the KMail imap client.
> > Any idea how I can proceed with this? The phone is 192.168.1.57 (LAN) or
> > 202.91.19.194 (GPRS) and Dovecot and KMail are on 192.168.1.2.
>
> See what rawlog shows: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog

Thanks for the tip. In fact, the problem was, as I thought, with the phone 
software. It got so confused it deleted the email account and when I 
recreated it everything worked again. I suspect something with the IMAP 
indices getting out of sync.

Cheers...
-Robin
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Robin Atwood.

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