[Dovecot] Possible fix to an old Thunderbird related problem

[Seth Mattinen]

Marc Perkel wrote:
> 
> 
> Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 7/12/2009 12:23 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>  
>>> I spoke too soon. Thunderbird is still broken. And it's really
>>> frustrating.
>>>     
>>
>> I'm sure Timo and others (myself included) would like more details...
>>
>> *What* is broken?
>>
>> Dovecot config details (dovecot -n output and other info that isn't
>> provided by that output)?
>>
>> Logs exhibiting the problem?
>>
>>   
> 
> I'm not sure where the problem is. Thunderbird always starts out fine.
> But after running for some time the message count of unread message will
> increase on folder with new messages but when you click on the folders
> the new messages don't appear. Or messages appear but seem to be empty
> messages. When selecting to empty the trash - the trash doesn't empty,
> ot the count of messages in trash will drop down somewhat.
> 
> Restarting Dovecot or restarting Thunderbird always solves the problem
> for a while. I noticed the problem got a lot worse recently and the last
> change was upgrading to 1.2.1. But it's been a serious annoyance for
> over a year.
> 
> Nothing strange in the logs to report. Wish I had more information.
> 

I see this every now and then with Thunderbird as well; just today, in
fact. Nothing strange (other than this) to report and no errors in the
logs. I'm on 1.1.17.

I know I'm absolutely no help, but it's not just you. ;)

~Seth