Dovecot/K9/Thunderbird IMAP interaction issues: replicated messages, constant reloading (TB) & missing new messages (K-9)

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Wed Jul 16 05:35:12 UTC 2014


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On Wed, 16 Jul 2014, David Gessel wrote:

> Disabling the imap_client_workarounds in TB ended up neither helping nor
> harming.  The first sync was promising but as soon as that was finished
> (it can take a while to download 8 messages to Iraq) it started over
> re-downloading the entire mailbox.  I don't seem to be generating
> duplicate messages, but I am redownloading every message over and over.
> My TB activity manager is filled with paused "bringing folder XXX up to
> date" messages.

Maybe you should check:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog
and see if the IMAP commands make sense. Check if IMAP validity / UIDs 
changing ... .

If "it can take a while", maybe the connection gets interrupted or 
corrupted and some client is trying to work around this.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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