On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 01:27:07AM +0500, Dmitry Niqiforoff wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm using QMAIL and UW-IMAP patched for mailbox format.
> There are complaints from our users that they're unable to
> delete some messages using IMAP. They mark message as "deleted"
> in their mail agent, and when they do "folder compact" it remains
> undeleted and unmarked as deleted. When I look into their homedir
> where mailbox file resides, there are some files with long names
> which looks like temporary files (with "$" in filenames). When I
> delete them, all the problems disappear until next such situation.
> Does anybody know what can be the source of this problem? Any
> suggestions about how to resolve the problem.
Hello Dmitry,
I had a similar problem, when having mail delivered to ~/Mailbox and a link
from /var/spool/mail/$USER to $HOME/Mailbox.
If you use ``mbox'' instead of Mailbox, imapd does not need the link in
/var/spool/mail and mail will hopefully deleted correctly. The problem
occured here with OE as imap-client when moving mails to folders.
Regards
Mirko
