On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
Axel Luttgens wrote:
Le 1 oct. 2009 à 13:57, Frank Bonnet a écrit :
Hello
I have an Apple computer user who has great problems
using IMAP and Dovecot.
Some same messages seems to stay in two or more folders
and are impossible to erase from the Apple mail client
Anyone has that kind of troubles ?
No.
Axel
PS: Perhaps could you tell us a bit more (client and server side),
so that really helpful answers may be provided. ;-)
Well OK
If he try to read some messages with apple mail client some
messages seems duplicated in several IMAP folders
If I read those messages with mutt onto the server everything is clean
It sounds like your local caches in Mac Mail are confused if
everything looks fine in Mutt. Try selecting a folder with duplicate
messages and then hit Mailbox > Rebuild. That should delete the local
cache for that folder and re-download all those messages, which should
remove duplicates.
Did you recently switch from a different IMAP server to dovecot? The
"double messages" problem usually happens when IMAP UIDs change on the
server, and usually happens when you switch to dovecot from something
else. We recently migrated from courier to dovecot and had to convert
everyone's UIDs from courier to dovecot to ensure people didn't get
double messages.
Of course, I have seen double messages in Mac Mail happen without a
migration and it usually relates to a quota (filesystem, not IMAP
quota) problem where clients try to delete a message and there's no
room left to move it to the Trash folder. In that case you usually
need to up the quota and rebuild that folder's local cache.
-David Warden
