[Dovecot] Thunderbird IMAP woes

[Tamas Kadar]

No, no, Courier was not perfect, far from it, with courier, subscription 
and unsubscription was COMPLETELY unreliable. I'd unsubscribe from 20 
folders and I close dialog and it unsubscribes me from only the first 10 
plus subscribes me to random 5 other folders. Weird stuff like that. 
Complete chaos.

In a sense, Dovecot is a huge step in the right direction, just not 
quite there yet. The thing that bothers me is that even when I turn off 
the show subscribed folders only option, sometimes I still don't see all 
folders, cause some subsubsubfolder remains hidden until 
thunder-effing-bird decides to show it.

Best regards,
Tamas

P.S. Just to be clear, I'm not blaming anything on Dovecot, just want to 
see if I can find a workaround or something.


On 8/11/2010 2:08 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 11.8.2010, at 12.33, Tamas Kadar wrote:
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>> Now, the problem is that to a lesser extent, Thunderbird 2, and to a larger extent Thunderbird 3 is having serious issues when I go (want to go) deeper than two levels of nesting. Like, in the Subscribe dialog sometimes I see the third level subfolders, sometimes I dont. If is subscribe to a second-level folder, then create a subfolder in it, the other subfolders suddenly appear. It's all very random, unfortunatelly, then only way I can use the system right now is to uncheck 'Show subscribed folders only' in Account Settings, and even then, sometimes folders disappear or reappear that are highly nested.
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> Some people have complained about this, but I thought this happened with all servers. So you're saying that the same TB versions with Courier didn't have this problem? .. Wonder what Courier could be doing differently here. I thought Dovecot and Courier outputs would be the same.
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> I guess it's also possible that there's a bug in Dovecot that happens only sometimes. Although I think I already once at least looked such IMAP traffic log and it looked correct. You could anyway try grabbing one where TB produces buggy behavior and I could take a look at it. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog
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