[Dovecot] possible bug with incoming mail

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 28 14:47:59 EEST 2005


Most likely some bug in mbox parser. 0.99.x's mbox code is 
unfortunately quite bad. I'd suggest installing 1.0-stable instead.

On 26.6.2005, at 16:42, Luke Ehresman wrote:

> I'm using version 0.99.14
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:50:26PM -0400, Todd Burroughs wrote:
>> What version of Dovecot are you using?  I don't see this behaviour
>> and am using mbox with current CVS version.
>>
>>
>> Todd
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Luke Ehresman wrote:
>>
>>> I've been using Dovecot for a couple months now and am very 
>>> impressed.
>>> Thanks for a great package.
>>>
>>> However, I have noticed a problem that I haven't been able to solve. 
>>> When
>>> a new message comes into my inbox, the last message that was 
>>> received is
>>> marked as new as well as the new one.
>>>
>>> I originally thought this was a bug in my client (mutt) but I have
>>> verified that the same thing happens with Thunderbird, Sylpheed, 
>>> mutt, and
>>> pine.
>>>
>>> My configuration is as follows:
>>> -------------------------------
>>>
>>> using mbox:
>>> default_mail_env =
>>> mbox:/var/spool/vfolders/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n
>>>
>>> using imaps
>>>
>>> Linux version 2.6.11-hardened-r1 (root at gondor) (gcc version 3.3.5 
>>> (Gentoo
>>> Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #2 Thu May 5 13:14:52 EDT 
>>> 2005
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you can give,
>>> Luke
>>>
>>
>>
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