[Dovecot] Mail lost - maybe a bug???

Timo Sirainen
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:08:59 -0000

On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 00:55 +0200, Marco Carcano wrote:

> I'm struggling against what seems a really serious trouble: sometimes
> mail get lost
>
> I did all the possible checks, but they seems really lost - I know is
> absurd, but it seems so
>
> it has been noticed by two users on my server: intially I tought that
> was their mistake (mail deleted, mail into spam, ecc), but it wasn't

Enable mail_log plugin to make sure of this.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog

> Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 dovecot: lda(user3):
msgid=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862 at usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org
>  >: saved mail to INBOX

If Dovecot logs this, then the message definitely was saved to INBOX.

> maybe is there some kind of bug in the maildrop version I use? by the
> way,  I had this issue also before installing amavisd-new

Maildrop?