[Dovecot] Thunderbird saved searches, tags and Dovecot oddity

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Durket
In converting everyone at our site from UW-IMAP I've run into a  
problem with a few

Thunderbird users and I'm wondering if anyone has some recommendations.

We're running dovecot 1.0.13 (yes I know it's old but we don't upgrade  
production
facilities that often). The affected Thunderbird users are running  
version 2.0023.


What's happening is this:

1) The user creates a filter rule which looks for, say, the From:  
header on a
 message, and then tags that message with a Thunderbird tag  
that they've

 defined (in this case ToDo).

2) The user also defines a search folderthat shows all mail items  
tagged ToDo.


3) Every day, the user opens the folder, handles all the ToDo  
messages and
 untags them as they are handled, causing them to disappear  
from the

 folder.

4) The next day (or the next time Thunderbird is started), all  
the previously

 tagged messages are back (in addition to newer ones).

 This doesn't happen with UW-IMAP (version imap-2007e which I think  
is the
last version with bug fixes ever issued). I haven't traced out the  
IMAP commands
going back and forth yet to see what might be different between the  
two servers -
I thought I'd ask here first to see if this is a known issue for which  
there is a solution

(like upgrading dovecot to a specific version).




Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird saved searches, tags and Dovecot oddity

2009-10-13 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 08:50 -0700, Michael Durket wrote:
  4) The next day (or the next time Thunderbird is started), all  
 the previously
   tagged messages are back (in addition to newer ones).

I guess you're using mbox format? Apparently there's some bug that
sometimes doesn't write flags to mbox file. mbox_lazy_writes=no should
fix that, although it also makes performance somewhat worse.


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