dovecot - Aug 2004 - Little problem with dovecot using mbox format

Hi everyone, this is my first post on this mailing list.  I recently 
installed postfix+dovecot+fetchmail on OpenBSD for my dad's office.  
(dovecot is setup as an imap server using mbox).  Everything worked 
flawlessly...until now. 

I don't know why, but now some emails seem to de-double themselves.  For 
exemple, yesterday morning I printed out all the emails.  To my surprise 
30 minutes later, I received 60 'new'' emails.  But these 60 emails 
weren't new, they were all copies of emails I had printed out earlier.  
Some emails were repeated some 10-15 times.  Now we never got this kind 
of problem until recently.  Has anyone ever experienced this kind of 
problem?  If so how did you fix the situation?  Most responses I got 
from the openBSD mailing list was to use maildir format.  Any insight 
into this?

Thanks,

Jean-Daniel


BTW we don't get THAT much email, maybe 200 a day for that 1 account 
that seems to be acting weird now.

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 19:57:16 -0400
Jd <jd at jackdan.net> wrote:
> I don't know why, but now some emails seem to de-double themselves. 
For
> exemple, yesterday morning I printed out all the emails.  To my surprise 
> 30 minutes later, I received 60 'new'' emails.
This doesn't sound like a Dovecot problem to me; much more likely to be a
fetchmail setup problem.

Do you have fetchmail set up to delete the messages on the server (the
server which it is fetching mails from)? After fetchmail has run, have you
confirmed that it has indeed deleted the mails from the server?

Keith

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