dovecot - Jul 2012 - emails are being marked as read auto-magically

Hi,

I'm having a weird issue with dovecot 2.1.7 (using the latest thunderbird
client). Something, I have emails that mark themselves as read on their
own. No one touches them, and they get marked as read. I try to re-mark
them as unread, but a few seconds later, they get marked as read again. The
same problem happens in reverse (emails marks as unread become read).

Has anyone ever experienced anything similar?

I cannot see any warnings or errors in the dovecot logs, so I'm not sure if
the problem is with thunderbird or with dovecot. However, I have never had
this issue before switching from dovecot 1.0.X to dovecot 2.1.X.
Unfortunately, we updated the thunderbird versions around the same time,
so I feel like a dog chasing my tail on this issue.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

-Joe

I really don't know why it happens, but I suggest that you make some 
tests with some webmail like squirrelmail, it might point you into some 
direction.

Regards,

F?bio Catunda.

On 27-07-2012 10:41, Joe Beaubien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a weird issue with dovecot 2.1.7 (using the latest
thunderbird
> client). Something, I have emails that mark themselves as read on their
> own. No one touches them, and they get marked as read. I try to re-mark
> them as unread, but a few seconds later, they get marked as read again. The
> same problem happens in reverse (emails marks as unread become read).
>
> Has anyone ever experienced anything similar?
>
> I cannot see any warnings or errors in the dovecot logs, so I'm not
sure if
> the problem is with thunderbird or with dovecot. However, I have never had
> this issue before switching from dovecot 1.0.X to dovecot 2.1.X.
> Unfortunately, we updated the thunderbird versions around the same time,
> so I feel like a dog chasing my tail on this issue.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Joe
>
>

Joe Beaubien wrote:
> I'm having a weird issue with dovecot 2.1.7 (using the latest
thunderbird
> client). Something, I have emails that mark themselves as read on their
> own. No one touches them, and they get marked as read. I try to re-mark
> them as unread, but a few seconds later, they get marked as read again. The
> same problem happens in reverse (emails marks as unread become read).
You might enable the mail_log Plugin and log flag changes:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog

Something like this should help:

mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_log notify
plugin {
  mail_log_events = flag_change
  mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size flags vsize from subject
}

I also suggest to use some lightweight mail client like "mutt" for
testing.

Regards
Daniel
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