Problems after upgrading to 2.3.2.1

Joel Dahl joel at vnode.se
Fri Nov 23 21:19:27 EET 2018


On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:00:17PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2018, at 22.28, Joel Dahl <joel at vnode.se> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've just upgraded dovecot from 2.2.35 to 2.3.2.1 on my mail server
> > and noticed something odd. My mail clients (mutt and Apple mail) both stopped
> > seeing new mail in my mailboxes.
> > 
> > For example, ~/Maildir/mailinglist1/new has 5 new mails. In mutt, vieweing the
> > list of mailboxes mutt reports 0 new mail for "mailinglist1". Opening up the
> > actual mailbox in mutt reveals the 5 new mails. Going back to the list of
> > mailboxes, mutt now correctly reports 5 unread mails. Waiting a few hours, and
> > about 10 new mails have arrived, but mutt still says 5 unread.
> > 
> > This is the same for every mailbox. As a test I deleted the index files for a
> > specific mailbox and restarted dovecot. But it didn't help. I use procmail to
> > deliver my mail into the Maildir folders, if that matters.
> 
> See if mailbox_list_index=no helps? Or switch to delivering via dovecot-lda (just tell procmail to deliver using it).

Setting mailbox_list_index=no fixed the problem. Thanks!

-- 
Joel


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