After upgrading to Alpha 4 I have two people complaining about a POP problem. Aparently they are getting their email sent to them over and over. They have it set to "leave messages on server" but apparently whatever keeps track of that is broken. So - how is it determined with POP what is new and what is read?
What do you have "pop3_uidl_format" and "pop3_reuse_xuidl" set to? Chris Marc Perkel wrote:> After upgrading to Alpha 4 I have two people complaining about a POP > problem. Aparently they are getting their email sent to them over and > over. They have it set to "leave messages on server" but apparently > whatever keeps track of that is broken. > > So - how is it determined with POP what is new and what is read? >-- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin@reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094
Marc Perkel wrote:> After upgrading to Alpha 4 I have two people complaining about a POP > problem. Aparently they are getting their email sent to them over and > over. They have it set to "leave messages on server" but apparently > whatever keeps track of that is broken. > > So - how is it determined with POP what is new and what is read?By a UIDL generated by POP3 server. I guess you did not set "pop3_uidl_format" in dovecot.conf protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u .. } It was meant that POP3 logins would not work if UIDL type is not set but there is small bug with this in alpha4pre. -- Tomi Hakala
Marc Perkel wrote:> After upgrading to Alpha 4 I have two people complaining about a POP > problem. Aparently they are getting their email sent to them over and > over. They have it set to "leave messages on server" but apparently > whatever keeps track of that is broken.Oh Marc, still unable to read a changelog even if it's only a few lines... of course it's easier to annoy others so they do your homework... ---cut--- - pop3_uidl_format setting is now required to be explicitly set in configuration file for pop3 to work at all. I want to get rid of the old default setting which breaks Outlooks, and simply changing the default would break existing setups. ---cut---