[Dovecot] dovecot imap and thunderbird tags

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Mar 1, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>>
>>> We've been using an imap(s) dovecot server for a while on an ubuntu 
>>> 8.04.2 and we noted that tags set by thunderbird ("important", "to 
>>> do", etc.) are almost always lost, i.e., when connecting to the same 
>>> imap account from another machine, the tags are not there anymore... 
>>> this always happens for the Inbox, and seldomly for other imap 
>>> folders... anyone else experiencing this?
>>
>> Are you using mbox files? Sounds like the same problem as "Custom 
>> flags in v1.0.15" a few days ago. Upgrading to v1.1 fixed that. Or 
>> setting mbox_lazy_writes=no.
>>
> 
> Hi there
> 
> I checked in our dovecot.conf and there was
> 
> #mbox_lazy_writes=yes
> 
> i.e., it was commented, and probably defaults to yes.  I changed it into
> 
> mbox_lazy_writes=no
> 
> restarted dovecot, and did a quick test with two machines, and it looks 
> like it's working now! :-)
> 
> I want to do some other tests and then get back to you
> 

I think I can confirm that the bug is now gone!

again, thanks a lot :-)
cheers
	Lorenzo

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