Unread Mail flag being reset frequently with dovecot -git master-2.2

Reuben Farrelly reuben-dovecot at reub.net
Thu Jun 30 12:49:10 UTC 2016


On 30/06/2016 1:41 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2016, at 06:18, Reuben Farrelly <reuben-dovecot at reub.net> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I'm experiencing problems with the Dovecot git master-2.2 branch, in which mails that have been previously read are randomly appearing as unread.  This happens slowly and affects more and more emails the more changes that occur to a mailbox.
>>
>> I am using Maildir format and on Gentoo Linux x86_64 on local disks.
>>
>> Usually only a few at a time change their status - and it seems to be random which ones lose their read status.  Typically though they are the most recent emails that have been delivered in the past few months (I haven't yet seen this occur with any really old emails).
> Most likely fixed by: https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/0649b7a1656bd98d95cdf40a98d47cff9c8de9f8

Indeed.  After 12+ hours of use and replication everything looks to now be stable again in master-2.2.  No outstanding issues and no problems seen.

Thanks!
Reuben
  



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