[Dovecot] LIST-STATUS issue

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 00:53 -0700, Michael M Slusarz wrote:

> It happened again.  Once it got around midnight local time I stopped  
> seeing correct STATUS updates with the UNSEEN count.  Running two  
> MUAs: I opened a mailbox with new messages in one, and the next time  
> the other MUA (webmail) polled it magically started seeing unseen  
> messages again.  And now if I change the seen flag in one MUA, it will  
> continue to be updated (as normal) in the other MUA.

Next time try talking IMAP protocol directly? First giving the same LIST
STATUS command, and if it doesn't show the updated counts, try STATUS
directly and finally EXAMINE.

I don't see anything in the code that could explain why this could be
happening. What filesystem are you using?