Hi folks, I just replaced my mail server's UW-imap with dovecot yesterday. I use the following folder setting default_mail_env mbox:/asiaa/home/%u/:/asiaa/home/%u/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/asiaa/home/%u/mail/dovecot_indexes This is a Scientific linux 4.2 with dovecot 0.99.11-2 . Now today the server loading is highly reduced because of the pop3 session impact is low. But users have the following problems: For outlook express users, when they come in the office, the first time they launch outlook express, they found that the previous Inbox is re-transmitted. So they got double the number of all past e-mails (they setup OE setting to keep a copy on the server). And some users also use pine. After the pine session, they get another whole copy of the past e-mails (so some users got 3X or even 4X the past e-mails). Am I missing something for the dovecot.conf setting, here is the entire configurations: Thanks in advance protocols = pop3 pop3s imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox:/asiaa/home/%u/:/asiaa/home/%u/mail/:INBOX=/var/m ail/%u:INDEX=/asiaa/home/%u/mail/dovecot_indexes mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root Cheers Joshua
On Saturday, August 11 at 02:26 AM, quoth Joshua, C.S. Chen:>I just replaced my mail server's UW-imap with dovecot yesterday.>For outlook express users, when they come in the office, the first >time they launch outlook express, they found that the previous Inbox >is re-transmitted.You need to migrate all the message UID's. Without them, dovecot generates new ones, which makes the client think that all the messages are new.>(so some users got 3X or even 4X the past e-mails).I can't imagine why that would be... ~Kyle -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Jefferson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070811/7d66e18c/attachment-0002.bin>
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 02:26 +0800, Joshua, C.S. Chen wrote:> This is a Scientific linux 4.2 with dovecot 0.99.11-2 .I'd recommend using Dovecot v1.0.x. 0.99.x is ancient and buggy. -------------- 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/20070812/940c4936/attachment-0002.bin>
This seems to be important to my problem. But I have no idea what it means by 'migrating the message uid'. Could soneone give me a hint and how to do that? I am using mbox format both in uw-imap and the current dovecot. Cheers Joshua Kyle Wheeler wrote:> On Saturday, August 11 at 02:26 AM, quoth Joshua, C.S. Chen: >> I just replaced my mail server's UW-imap with dovecot yesterday. > >> For outlook express users, when they come in the office, the first >> time they launch outlook express, they found that the previous Inbox >> is re-transmitted. > > You need to migrate all the message UID's. Without them, dovecot > generates new ones, which makes the client think that all the messages > are new. > >> (so some users got 3X or even 4X the past e-mails). > > I can't imagine why that would be... > > ~Kyle
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Joshua, C.S. Chen wrote:> Now today the server loading is highly reduced because of the pop3 > session impact is low. But users have the following problems:They leave the messages on the server :(> For outlook express users, when they come in the office, the first time > they launch outlook express, they found that the previous Inbox is > re-transmitted. So they got double the number of all past e-mails (theyIs this a one-time problem, e.g. when they contact the Dovecot server the first time, or a dayly problem? If it is a one-time problem, you need make sure that the UIDs returned by both servers match, e.g. see: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-February/011459.html - -and- http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRr/9Sy9SORjhbDpvAQJUIAf/YIUtUAtWW8irfzXzVmdF+HzEzoaqtxiQ AFTNph9Ageincf0Vh9O6fdl47fh0JJyUeRbeCRwFQRH0Q5dEM74V+Jnv9w+Fiuoa 10mZ5BU0yXP9xjNqLXi84WZqKtdcAFu5/FyIiPBEUTRCkwXJVn4MovkXoeqofUxX Y2vRpjgDvNJk10uwZnmSDiQXWdmRjfzuy7qp08OkwYXQmHhncmFzFt5kFR63cXej Jh8PVfVpfX9xyND0UbsN+USNvBmx7ZiYj8TfTA8CiFqb5rgUxByY6Cp5gJ4pyhnA lyGjL+FVPIip+JEYNFUeyjMhK9/IVIdKQmgRtMRuH8qEfdwLJDJ9PQ==ava1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----