[Dovecot] Users can't delete an email (Totally Random effect)

Timo Sirainen
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:35:23 -0000

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 15:07 -0400, Jesse C. Smillie
wrote:
> Hello all...  Found a weird one here.  I tried to search the web but
I'm
> not having luck so I thought I'd hit the mailing list.
>
> We have noticed off and on all school year that every so often a user
> gets an email that they just can't delete using Thunderbird or Outlook
> over IMAP (we do not support Pop3 anymore.)  Essentially the user clicks
> the email and takes it to the trash.  When they empty the trash the
> email appears again in their inbox as if it was new!  Up until this
> point I would just tell people to login to Usermin which is still set to
> access the email natively through the maildir format and delete it that
way.
>
> What we have found out is that emails which have their info fields
> repeated twice are emails which can't be deleted.  So for example:
> root at gator:/home/somedude# find ./ -iname '*,*,*'
> ./Maildir/cur/1208807796.29873_0.gator:2,Sb:2,S

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/39bb56f31185 fixes this.

> Unfortunately I don't know how or why these emails are created.

Maybe Usermin creates them?

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