Hello, i have a annoying problem with dovecot after updating to 1.1.14. Dovecot seems to empty all cur/ and new/ Folders in the Maildir of a particular user several times a day (3 times so far). It leaves only unread messages in their place. All Index-Files are getting updated and reflect the "empty"-State of the Mailbox. A quick look over the logfiles reveals nothing which seems to be relevant to this malfunction. The error_log is empty for the relevant timeframe. There is no Expire/Expunge-Plugin running. Fortunately i have a hourly backup-snapshot to restore the Mailboxes, but this is obviously no solution. How can i debug this problem? Any advice is welcome. System: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, dovecot-1.1.14, dovecot-managesieve-0.10.6, dovecot-sieve-1.1.6 (all installed via the ports-tree), exim-4.69_3 Clients: Thunderbird, Mail.app both IMAP only Regards, Alex
Alexander Johannes wrote:> Hello, > > i have a annoying problem with dovecot after updating to 1.1.14. > > Dovecot seems to empty all cur/ and new/ Folders in the Maildir of a > particular user several times a day (3 times so far). It leaves only > unread messages in their place. All Index-Files are getting updated and > reflect the "empty"-State of the Mailbox. > > A quick look over the logfiles reveals nothing which seems to be > relevant to this malfunction. The error_log is empty for the relevant > timeframe. > > There is no Expire/Expunge-Plugin running. > > Fortunately i have a hourly backup-snapshot to restore the Mailboxes, > but this is obviously no solution. > > How can i debug this problem? Any advice is welcome. > > System: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, dovecot-1.1.14, dovecot-managesieve-0.10.6, > dovecot-sieve-1.1.6 (all installed via the ports-tree), exim-4.69_3 > > Clients: Thunderbird, Mail.app both IMAP onlyA wild shot is Thunderbird (if I remember correctly) has an remove read messages either after some many minutes or when closing it. OOPS! There it is. Account Settings -> Server Settings -> Clean up" (Expunge") Inbox on Exit \\||/ Rod --
On May 19, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Alexander Johannes wrote:> Dovecot seems to empty all cur/ and new/ Folders in the Maildir of a > particular user several times a day (3 times so far). It leaves only > unread messages in their place. All Index-Files are getting updated > and reflect the "empty"-State of the Mailbox...> How can i debug this problem? Any advice is welcome.http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog logs all expunges, so it should show what does it and when.
Hello, On Tue, 19 May 2009 11:35:46 -0400, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:> On May 19, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Alexander Johannes wrote: >> How can i debug this problem? Any advice is welcome. > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog logs all expunges, so it > should show what does it and when.Thanks Timo. I will try that and report back. Regards, Alex
Hello, On Tue, 19 May 2009 08:00:01 -0700, "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders at cyber-office.net> wrote:> Alexander Johannes wrote: >> Clients: Thunderbird, Mail.app both IMAP onlyAs far as i can see, the problem is related to thunderbird (it happened again today 5 minutes after starting thunderbird). But it even occours, when the mentioned option is not set. The funny thing is, that it did not happen with the same thunderbird-version and the previous dovecot 1.1.11. When there is time, i will set up a testcase to investigate this further. Regards, Alex