[Dovecot] Deleted / read mails show up as new on remote imap clients

Daniel Parthey daniel.parthey at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Sun Feb 24 20:23:52 EET 2013


Hi Andre,

Andre Bischof wrote:
> Mails, which I already read or deleted via my IMAP client
> (Thunderbird) on the same machine running the server (it runs behind
> DynDNS on my local machine, thanks to
> http://mein.homelinux.com/wiki/mailserver/) show up again if I
> connect via IMAP from other client computers, i.e. my notebook
> (Thunderbird again).

I had a similar problem where deleted folders showed up again
in Thunderbird. The following imap_client_workaround setting
worked for me:

protocol imap {
  imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep
}

Kind regards
Daniel
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