dovecot - Aug 2004 - Problems with registering new emails - imap/jfs/maildir

After changing a mailserver from using mbox/ext3 (RHL9) to Maildir/jfs 
(RHEL 3), dovecot
0.99.10 no longer reports new email even if asked...  I have to restart 
the mail client and
do a fresh login to notice new email.

This happens with multiple mail clients on multiple platforms, and 
didn't happen before the
conversion... any suggestions on workarounds?


-- 
Trond Eivind Glomsr?d
Senior Software Engineer
Scali - www.scali.com
High Performance Clustering

On 24.8.2004, at 20:44, Trond Eivind Glomsr?d wrote:
> After changing a mailserver from using mbox/ext3 (RHL9) to Maildir/jfs 
> (RHEL 3), dovecot
> 0.99.10 no longer reports new email even if asked...  I have to 
> restart the mail client and
> do a fresh login to notice new email.
>
> This happens with multiple mail clients on multiple platforms, and 
> didn't happen before the
> conversion... any suggestions on workarounds?
Sounds pretty strange. How about if you switch from INBOX to another 
folder and back, does it show then new mails? Nothing in log files? Do 
the files get moved from new/ directory to cur/ even while client 
doesn't see them?
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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 24.8.2004, at 20:44, Trond Eivind Glomsr?d wrote:
>
>> After changing a mailserver from using mbox/ext3 (RHL9) to 
>> Maildir/jfs (RHEL 3), dovecot
>> 0.99.10 no longer reports new email even if asked...  I have to 
>> restart the mail client and
>> do a fresh login to notice new email.
>>
>> This happens with multiple mail clients on multiple platforms, and 
>> didn't happen before the
>> conversion... any suggestions on workarounds?
>
>
> Sounds pretty strange. How about if you switch from INBOX to another 
> folder and back, does it show then new mails?
No.
> Nothing in log files? 

Nothing.
> Do the files get moved from new/ directory to cur/ even while client 
> doesn't see them
> ?
No, they stay in new/ until the mail client is restarted.


-- 
Trond Eivind Glomsr?d
Senior Software Engineer
Scali - www.scali.com
High Performance Clustering