Ever since Columbus day things have been strange with my two dovecot
servers, according to my Blackberry users.
We do not have a BES just the standard BIS that comes with a personal
account.
Several people have told me that since that Monday that they get
occasional duplicate copies of messages which only appear singularly in
their Maildir inboxes.
I myself even called VZW and got transferred to RIM themselves where
they 'reset' my account; (same as me going into the BIS server and
deleting and adding again) only to have the same thing happen; again
occasionally..
Below is relevant dovecot info..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 164064 Oct 1 17:16 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot
(date it was built; prior to any problems.. *whew*) ;)
1 # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
2 # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386
3 ssl_cert_file:
/usr/local/etc/lighttpd/ssl/mail.poughkeepsieschools.org.pem
4 ssl_key_file:
/usr/local/etc/lighttpd/ssl/mail.poughkeepsieschools.org.pem
5 disable_plaintext_auth: no
6 verbose_ssl: yes
7 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
8 login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
9 login_greeting: mail.poughkeepsieschools.org OK
10 first_valid_uid: 89
11 last_valid_uid: 89
12 first_valid_gid: 89
13 last_valid_gid: 89
14 maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes
15 mail_plugins: quota imap_quota
16 imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
17 auth default:
18 mechanisms: plain login
19 user: vpopmail
20 passdb:
21 driver: vpopmail
22 userdb:
23 driver: vpopmail
24 socket:
25 type: listen
26 client:
27 path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
28 mode: 438
29 plugin:
30 quota: maildir:User quota
31 expire: Trash 7 Spam 30
Now what does not show here is something that I put in that it looked
like it was supposed to help but didn't..
mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30
after looking around at other people complaining about BIS and possible
dovecot issues it seemed that that entry was the 'magic' the BIS was
missing; except I never had it and never had troubles.
I'm assuming this is a BIS issue of some sort, but I can't tell.
After looking on the wiki I didn't see anything that says "BIS users
look here for tips.. "
So I'm assuming there aren't any; I think it should just work with the
IMAP server..
Any help would be appreciated as everyone thinks this is 'our problem'
and "if we had an exchange server we wouldn't be having these
problems.."
Thanks in advance..
Hmm, I haven't had any issues with BIS or BES users. But I checked my config and I have: mailbox_idle_check_interval = 120 I did that for other purposes, guess that just fixed it for me, before bis ever started using the idle command. Quoting "B. Cook" <bcook at poughkeepsieschools.org>:> Ever since Columbus day things have been strange with my two dovecot > servers, according to my Blackberry users. > > We do not have a BES just the standard BIS that comes with a > personal account. > > Several people have told me that since that Monday that they get > occasional duplicate copies of messages which only appear singularly > in their Maildir inboxes. > > I myself even called VZW and got transferred to RIM themselves where > they 'reset' my account; (same as me going into the BIS server and > deleting and adding again) only to have the same thing happen; again > occasionally.. > > Below is relevant dovecot info.. > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 164064 Oct 1 17:16 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot > > (date it was built; prior to any problems.. *whew*) ;) > > 1 # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf > 2 # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386 > 3 ssl_cert_file: > /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/ssl/mail.poughkeepsieschools.org.pem > 4 ssl_key_file: > /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/ssl/mail.poughkeepsieschools.org.pem > 5 disable_plaintext_auth: no > 6 verbose_ssl: yes > 7 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login > 8 login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login > 9 login_greeting: mail.poughkeepsieschools.org OK > 10 first_valid_uid: 89 > 11 last_valid_uid: 89 > 12 first_valid_gid: 89 > 13 last_valid_gid: 89 > 14 maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes > 15 mail_plugins: quota imap_quota > 16 imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle > tb-extra-mailbox-sep > 17 auth default: > 18 mechanisms: plain login > 19 user: vpopmail > 20 passdb: > 21 driver: vpopmail > 22 userdb: > 23 driver: vpopmail > 24 socket: > 25 type: listen > 26 client: > 27 path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client > 28 mode: 438 > 29 plugin: > 30 quota: maildir:User quota > 31 expire: Trash 7 Spam 30 > > Now what does not show here is something that I put in that it > looked like it was supposed to help but didn't.. > > mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 > > after looking around at other people complaining about BIS and > possible dovecot issues it seemed that that entry was the 'magic' > the BIS was missing; except I never had it and never had troubles. > > I'm assuming this is a BIS issue of some sort, but I can't tell. > > After looking on the wiki I didn't see anything that says "BIS users > look here for tips.. " > > So I'm assuming there aren't any; I think it should just work with > the IMAP server.. > > Any help would be appreciated as everyone thinks this is 'our > problem' and "if we had an exchange server we wouldn't be having > these problems.." > > Thanks in advance.. > > >
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 08:03 -0400, B. Cook wrote:> Now what does not show here is something that I put in that it looked > like it was supposed to help but didn't.. > > mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30This is the default already. And changing it has almost zero effect if you built Dovecot with inotify/dnotify/kqueue support. If the problem is related to IDLE connections giving answers too fast, I guess you could just disable the inotify/dnotify/kqueue (by recompiling). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20091020/727cd017/attachment-0002.bin>
Turns out this was a self inflicted wound.. Seems that NOD32 (version 4) and Thunderbird with multiple IMAP accounts has a problem with 'duplication of emails'.. So low and behold disabling NOD32 inside TB solved the problems.. Nothing to do with dovecot.. Seems on Monday everyone had time to upgrade/update things at home.. Thanks for the help. On 10/20/09 8:03 AM, B. Cook wrote:> Ever since Columbus day things have been strange with my two dovecot > servers, according to my Blackberry users. > > We do not have a BES just the standard BIS that comes with a personal > account. > > Several people have told me that since that Monday that they get > occasional duplicate copies of messages which only appear singularly in > their Maildir inboxes. > > I myself even called VZW and got transferred to RIM themselves where > they 'reset' my account; (same as me going into the BIS server and > deleting and adding again) only to have the same thing happen; again > occasionally.. >