dovecot - Feb 2009 - Phone cannot receive mail suddenly

Starting at midnight Feb 1 my phone can no longer fetch mail from Dovecot. It 
endlessly connects and reconnects as you can see in the log below. I have 
restarted dovecot, the phone, deleted /home/robinmail/mail, all to no avail. 
I have turned on debug output but it does not tell me anymore. I can connect 
and see the folder using the KMail imap client. Any idea how I can proceed 
with this? The phone is 192.168.1.57 (LAN) or 202.91.19.194 (GPRS) and 
Dovecot and KMail are on 192.168.1.2.


Feb  1 20:12:58 opal dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.8 starting up
Feb  1 20:13:41 opal dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<robinmail>, 
method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.57, lip=192.168.1.2
Feb  1 20:13:41 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): Effective uid=500, gid=100, 
home=/home/robinmail
Feb  1 20:13:41 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): mbox: 
data=~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/robinmail
Feb  1 20:13:41 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): fs: root=/home/robinmail/mail, 
index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/robinmail
Feb  1 20:13:41 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): Connection closed bytes=18/484
Feb  1 20:14:05 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): Effective uid=500, gid=100, 
home=/home/robinmail
Feb  1 20:14:05 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): mbox: 
data=~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/robinmail
Feb  1 20:14:05 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): fs: root=/home/robinmail/mail, 
index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/robinmail
Feb  1 20:14:05 opal dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<robinmail>, 
method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.2, lip=192.168.1.2, TLS
Feb  1 20:14:37 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): Effective uid=500, gid=100, 
home=/home/robinmail
Feb  1 20:14:37 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): mbox: 
data=~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/robinmail
Feb  1 20:14:37 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): fs: root=/home/robinmail/mail, 
index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/robinmail
Feb  1 20:14:37 opal dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<robinmail>, 
method=PLAIN, rip=202.91.19.194, lip=192.168.1.2
Feb  1 20:14:39 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): Connection closed bytes=18/453
Feb  1 20:14:43 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): Effective uid=500, gid=100, 
home=/home/robinmail
Feb  1 20:14:43 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): mbox: 
data=~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/robinmail
Feb  1 20:14:43 opal dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): fs: root=/home/robinmail/mail, 
index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/robinmail

TIA
-Robin
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a
thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 20:26 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote:
> Starting at midnight Feb 1 my phone can no longer fetch mail from Dovecot.
It
> endlessly connects and reconnects as you can see in the log below. I have 
> restarted dovecot, the phone, deleted /home/robinmail/mail, all to no
avail.
> I have turned on debug output but it does not tell me anymore. I can
connect
> and see the folder using the KMail imap client. Any idea how I can proceed 
> with this? The phone is 192.168.1.57 (LAN) or 202.91.19.194 (GPRS) and 
> Dovecot and KMail are on 192.168.1.2.
See what rawlog shows: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog

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On Tuesday 03 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 20:26 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote:
> > Starting at midnight Feb 1 my phone can no longer fetch mail from
> > Dovecot. It endlessly connects and reconnects as you can see in the
log
> > below. I have restarted dovecot, the phone, deleted
/home/robinmail/mail,
> > all to no avail. I have turned on debug output but it does not tell me
> > anymore. I can connect and see the folder using the KMail imap client.
> > Any idea how I can proceed with this? The phone is 192.168.1.57 (LAN)
or
> > 202.91.19.194 (GPRS) and Dovecot and KMail are on 192.168.1.2.
>
> See what rawlog shows: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog
Thanks for the tip. In fact, the problem was, as I thought, with the phone 
software. It got so confused it deleted the email account and when I 
recreated it everything worked again. I suspect something with the IMAP 
indices getting out of sync.

Cheers...
-Robin
-- 
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a
thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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