We have users whose folders are between 100 MB and 800 MB in size. Most of those users are using Outlook but some are using Thunderbird.
Lately (and seemingly suddenly) the users are encountering trouble in that they will move one or more items from the inbox to another folder and get inconsistent results: * sometimes the move is honored, with the item appearing in the target folder and disappearing from the source folder. * sometimes the move is partly honored in that the item appears in the target folder, but is NOT deleted from the source folder. * and sometimes the move is not honored at all, despite the client email program thinking for a moment that it was (before seeing in moments after that it wasn't.) The server is FreeBSD 5.4 using imap2006e, I think. I'll upgrade to imap2007, whatever's current in the FreeBSD ports tree, to see if it helps. (1) I insured that /var/mail and /usr/tmp were permission 1777 as suggested, but just now so I don't know if that will prove to help. Things used to work just fine without these changes; the only things that may have changed are (a) the users' mail folders have gotten larger, (b) the versions of Outlook they are using are new. Thunderbird (the latest in general) also suffers the failed transfers, though, and only "suddenly" now for no apparent reason. (2) I see no reference to debugging on the website. I thought I could perhaps turn on a flag for imap in inetd to be able to track requests to try to see what the server was being told to do, but I see no mention of any such facility for either imap or c-client. == How can I debug why moving items from one folder to another fails or is inconsistent? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list Imap-uw@u.washington.edu http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
