We have - Dovecot 1.0.15 (the default on Debian Lenny stable) Thunderbird 3.1.4 In our installation the Inbox is a mbox and the other folders are maildir. When we tag messages in Inbox, the tags disappear after a while. In the other folders they stay. I found two possible solutions suggested - 1. Set mbox_lazy_writes=no 2. Convert the Inbox to maildir What would be the best approach in your opinion? Would suggest not following the Debian Lenny stable version (1.0.15), but compiling the current stable Dovecot? Thank you very much, Iv
Iv Ray wrote:> We have - > > Dovecot 1.0.15 (the default on Debian Lenny stable) Thunderbird > 3.1.4 >< snip >> > Would suggest not following the Debian Lenny stable version > (1.0.15), but compiling the current stable Dovecot? >The Debian backports service can update your version to Dovecot 1.2.13, since you are using Lenny/Stable. The backports service is described here:> Debian Backports> "The website [1] and the mirror moved to > http://backports.debian.org/ and the archive is now available below > debian-backports/. Even though we expect the old entries to > continue to work for a while, you might still want to update your > sources.list entry to: > > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports > main contrib non-free(careful with the line-wrap, there, include a <sp> before 'main')> or one of the mirrors[2] that do carry the backports archive."> http://backports.debian.org/I'm not sure whether a newer version than 1.2.13 runs on Debian Lenny without other new libraries etc, so we, also, would be interested to hear about later versions installed on Lenny. Especially, if existing mail is unaffected (we use Maildir but comment on any mail storage experience would be valuable). regards, Ron
Iv Ray wrote on 21.09.2010:> Would suggest not following the Debian Lenny stable version > (1.0.15), but compiling the current stable Dovecot?You can also use the automatically built packages from Stephan. They can be found here: http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ More informations can be found here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries#Automatically_Built_Packages Compiling Dovecot 2.x under Lenny is no problem but the easier way is to use the release from the above source. Because Dovecot 2.x isn't available for Lenny or the upcoming version "Squeeze" you must use external repositories or compile Dovecot yourself. I would also use maildir for all mailboxes instead of mbox for inbox... -- Daniel