Joey Coleman
2006-Nov-30 19:40 UTC
[Dovecot] Problem/workaround with X-Keywords and Apple's Mail.app
Hello, I've just switched from UW-IMAP to Dovecot, and for the most part, things are good. However, I encountered the problem with the X-Keywords header not being written back into individual messages in an mbox file (originally described in [1], and Timo gave a clue as to maybe why in [2]). What was happening for me is that Apple's Mail.app would flag a message as spam, which happily sets a couple keywords in the message, but those weren't being written back (at least, I didn't see them in the file on the server). The "DO NOT DELETE..." message had a perfectly fine X-IMAP header, and up until I switched things were working great. The user visible symptom of this happened every time new spam arrived in my Junk folder [3] --- the new spam would arrive, be flagged as spam by Mail.app, and the earlier pieces of mail would promptly be unflagged! Anyway, Timo's clue in [2] prompted me to turn off both mbox_lazy_writes and mbox_dirty_syncs (the latter just on the off- chance... it's a low-volume server, so I can deal with the inefficiency). Lo and behold, Mail.app started acting sane again *and* the X-Keywords header appeared immediately. Oddly, during all of this, the Status and X-UID keywords would appear in the messages just fine; no clue as to why those and not X- Keywords. Version details are: - Dovecot 1.0rc13 [4] - FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - Apple Mail.app 2.1 (752/752.2) cheers, --joey [1] http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-March/011872.html [2] http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-June/014126.html [3] And it felt really strange while troubleshooting this as I found myself *hoping* for another piece of spam to arrive. Bleh. [4] Yes, two versions behind current, but in my defense, I did check the announcements and they didn't seem to mention the problem.
Timo Sirainen
2007-Feb-17 12:35 UTC
[Dovecot] Problem/workaround with X-Keywords and Apple's Mail.app
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 19:40 +0000, Joey Coleman wrote:> However, I encountered the problem with the X-Keywords header not > being written back into individual messages in an mbox file > (originally described in [1], and Timo gave a clue as to maybe why in > [2])...> - Dovecot 1.0rc13 [4]Have you since tried with newer Dovecot versions if this is already fixed? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070217/0bc3b2cd/attachment.bin>