[Dovecot] Dovecot is emptying Maildir folders
Roderick A. Anderson
raanders at cyber-office.net
Tue May 19 18:00:01 EEST 2009
Alexander Johannes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have a annoying problem with dovecot after updating to 1.1.14.
>
> Dovecot seems to empty all cur/ and new/ Folders in the Maildir of a
> particular user several times a day (3 times so far). It leaves only
> unread messages in their place. All Index-Files are getting updated and
> reflect the "empty"-State of the Mailbox.
>
> A quick look over the logfiles reveals nothing which seems to be
> relevant to this malfunction. The error_log is empty for the relevant
> timeframe.
>
> There is no Expire/Expunge-Plugin running.
>
> Fortunately i have a hourly backup-snapshot to restore the Mailboxes,
> but this is obviously no solution.
>
> How can i debug this problem? Any advice is welcome.
>
> System: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, dovecot-1.1.14, dovecot-managesieve-0.10.6,
> dovecot-sieve-1.1.6 (all installed via the ports-tree), exim-4.69_3
>
> Clients: Thunderbird, Mail.app both IMAP only
A wild shot is Thunderbird (if I remember correctly) has an remove read
messages either after some many minutes or when closing it. OOPS!
There it is. Account Settings -> Server Settings -> Clean up"
(Expunge") Inbox on Exit
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Rod
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