I never have such problems with e.g. horde or Mail on Mac OS X.
Could that be IMAP client-related as well? But then I am investigating how to
replace my manual operations with dovecot's deliver. I don't want to end up
having such problems as well.
Martin
Am 08.07.2010 um 18:58 schrieb Andreas Galatis:
> After having deleted some Mails and the user accesses the concerned folder
> via squirrelmail he gets a failure notice saying the imap-connection was
> interrupted.
> In the logs I see the error message saying time went back, therefore
> dovecot was stopped.
> The error message is false, time is not manipulated, I run ntpd on all
> servers. So I tried stopping the "deleteoldmails" script and have no more
> problems with the folders, neither with time going back.
> Since I use dovecot, my client can easily show all messages in the Folder
> and delete the oldest himself, through squirrelmail. With courier it was
> too slow to see large amount of Mails.
>
>
> Andreas
>
>> Yes, it can be problematic. At the same time though, dovecot is very
>> robust, and is capable of recovering from inconsistencies such as this
>> automatically (all by itself). I would expect performance hits when
>> dovecot needs to rebuild indexes and such, but I would not expect a
>> failure of any kind. If it fails, I'd consider it a bug (and I expect
>> Timo the author would as well).
>>
>> If you run into problems however, I think Andreas's remedy of deleting
>> the dovecot-files should indeed clear things up. I'd try to check first
>> though to be sure that dovecot isn't in the middle of rebuilding things
>> already. Not sure how I'd do that off hand (ps?/lsof?).
>> --
>> -Eric 'shubes'
>>
>> Martin Waschbuesch wrote:
>>> Interesting,
>>>
>>> I have a script that does just that (move files about in the maildir)
>>> and it has not lead to problems yet. Though, I can definitely understand
>>> how it might be problematic. I gotta watch out for that.
>>> If you want to be on the safe side, I guess Eric's suggestion of using
>>> dovecot's lda is the thing to do.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> Am 08.07.2010 um 11:47 schrieb Andreas Galatis:
>>>
>>>> Hi Eric,
>>>>
>>>> As far as I learned it is never a good idea to copy (or delete)
>>>> messages
>>>> directly in the Maildir if you use dovecot.
>>>> I had a script deleting old mails from a clients Maildir running via
>>>> cron.
>>>> The first day the script deleted old messages, the client could not
>>>> access the
>>>> last listpage from squirrelmail.
>>>> I think the dovecot- index files where irritated because of missing
>>>> files.
>>>> At least you would have to delete the dovecot-files in the concerned
>>>> directory
>>>> (they will be rebuilt)
>>>>
>>>> Andreas
>>>> Am Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2010 04:18:51 schrieb Eric Shubert:
>>>>> Rajesh M wrote:
>>>>>> hi eric
>>>>>>
>>>>>> when the email arrives in the spam box its headers contained the
>>>>>> "delivered to" email id in the header so my script will know where to
>>>>>> which email id the message is to be delivered. so my concern about
>>>>>> bcc is
>>>>>> resolved.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> my second question is as such
>>>>>> which would be better
>>>>> Define better. ;)
>>>>>
>>>>>> Simply move the email from the "centralized spambox" to the inbox of
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> email id
>>>>>> Or use the qmail-queue program to reroute the message back to the
>>>>>> queue
>>>>>> for delivery.
>>>>> As usual, there's more than one way.
>>>>>
>>>>>> i don't want the email time stamps changed during this process.
>>>>> Which time stamps are you referring to?
>>>>>
>>>>> On further thinking about this, I wouldn't do either. If you have
>>>>> dovecot installed, I would use dovecot's deliver program. Otherwise,
>>>>> I'd
>>>>> use the maildrop program. You should realize though that at some point
>>>>> dovecot's lda (deliver) is likely going to replace maildrop. With
>>>>> either
>>>>> program, I don't expect you'd need to do any parsing of the message in
>>>>> your script - just pass it on to the lda. I could be wrong about this
>>>>> though.
>>>>>
>>>>> You could move the file to the appropriate inbox yourself and I
>>>>> believe
>>>>> that would work, but using the lda would be 'better'. The lda really
>>>>> should know what's going into the mailbox, for indexing and quota
>>>>> purposes.
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