dovecot - Oct 2005 - Dovecot reports zero messages erroneously

On October 11, Mark Farmer reported a problem about not being able to see new 
mails.  I'm running into the same issue.  Even though cur/ and new/ contain 
messages, Dovecot reports that there aren't any.

This problem seemed to start happening in alpha3 (and persists in alpha4).  
When I revert back to alpha2, the messages show up again.

It looks like a problem with the dovecot.index* files.  When I delete them, 
alpha4 can serve up the mails just fine, and will in fact keep working for a 
little while.  Eventually (within a few hours, although I'm not sure what 
causes it), dovecot thinks things are empty again.

Like Mark, I'm using Postfix..  I'm not sure if that has anything to do
with
the problem but I thought it'd be worth pointing out.

If there are any specific things you'd like me to do to try to pin down this
problem, let me know.

Chris

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 09:36 -0700, Chris Spiegel wrote:
> On October 11, Mark Farmer reported a problem about not being able to see
new
> mails.  I'm running into the same issue.  Even though cur/ and new/
contain
> messages, Dovecot reports that there aren't any.
> 
> This problem seemed to start happening in alpha3 (and persists in alpha4).
> When I revert back to alpha2, the messages show up again.
Probably because alpha3 contains this change:

	* src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-sync.c: We were forcing a
	  maildir resync when it hadn't changed at all.
> It looks like a problem with the dovecot.index* files.  When I delete them,
> alpha4 can serve up the mails just fine, and will in fact keep working for
a
> little while.  Eventually (within a few hours, although I'm not sure
what
> causes it), dovecot thinks things are empty again.
What about if you do "touch Maildir/new", does it then see the new
mails?

What filesystem do you use?

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