Virtual mailbox shows mails that are too old

[Rob Hoelz]

Another workaround that worked for me with this is using INDEX=MEMORY in your virtual folder setup.

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:19:56 +0200 (EET)
Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:

> Hi, this is a known issue unfortunately. You can try do doveadm index
> -u victim 'Virtual/*'
> 
> Aki
> On 19 February 2019 09:46 Stefan Hagen via dovecot <
> dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm using dovecot on my personal / private email server.
> > I have set up virtual mailboxes in my inbox namespace like this:
> > 
> > namespace inbox {
> > inbox = yes
> > prefix = "Virtual/"
> > separator = /
> > location =
> > "virtual:~/.emails_virtual:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=dovecot.virtual.index:LISTINDEX=dovecot.virtual.list.index"
> > list = yes subscriptions = yes
> > mailbox {
> > auto = subscribe
> > }
> > }
> > 
> > I had quite some trouble with it at first with UIDs changing all the
> > time, but after adding INDEX and LISTINDEX it started to work just
> > fine.
> > 
> > I've created dovecot_virtual files like this one:
> > $ cat ~/.emails_virtual/2-LastDay/dovecot-virtual
> > *
> > -Trash
> > -Sent
> > -Drafts
> > -Spam
> > -Virtual
> > -Virtual/*
> > all younger 86400
> > 
> > After stopping dovecot and deleting the index files and restarting
> > dovecot, the virtual mailbox shows all mail from the last day - as
> > expected. But after one day, it shows mail from two days. After
> > three, it shows mails from three days.
> > 
> > It looks like dovecot selects emails from the last day, but never
> > cleans out emails that are older, once they have been selected.
> > 
> > My full dovecot -n can be found here:
> > https://codevoid.de/?q=/0/p/dovecot-n.txt
> > 
> > Any ideas about what could be wrong?
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Stefan
> > 
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> Aki Tuomi
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