[Dovecot] Seen flag in maildir filename not being respected

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jul 31 13:06:00 EEST 2008


On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    I'm using dovecot 1.1.2 (but I've noticed this since 1.1.1 which I
> was using until yesterday). It seems dovecot is ignoring the "S"  
> flag in
> Maildir filenames, and is relying only in its Index Files to determine
> if a message has been read or not.
>
>    I say that because if I delete the dovecot.index.* files for a mail
> folder, all the mails in there appear as unread.

Do you have dovecot-shared file in the maildir? If it exists, Dovecot  
uses only its index file for storing \Seen flags (to get per-user  
\Seen flags with shared mailboxes).

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