Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-14 Thread dhottinger
Quoting John and Catherine Allen al...@vo.lu: dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email client? I have had a couple of users come up with random missing emails. Im trying to figure out if it is user

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-14 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2/12/2009, Maarten Bezemer (mcbdove...@robuust.nl) wrote: I can see 1.1.9-1 in Experimental, but not even in Unstable yet. So I'm not ready to try it on production machines. I could never use a distro that required me to use outdated/buggy

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-14 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2/12/2009, Maarten Bezemer (mcbdove...@robuust.nl) wrote: Strangest thing about this is that it only seems to happen when an email is read first through webmail. What were you using for webmail again? Squirrelmail, using the same imap server

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/14/2009 9:59 AM, Maarten Bezemer wrote: I can see 1.1.9-1 in Experimental, but not even in Unstable yet. So I'm not ready to try it on production machines. I could never use a distro that required me to use outdated/buggy software... So you prefer to use the newshiny versions of the

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/12/2009, Maarten Bezemer (mcbdove...@robuust.nl) wrote: I've seen users with about 1GB worth of Maildir folders and some 800MB of IMAP cache PST. So it might not be headers only in there... Or they never compact their PST files. This MUST be done manually... tha auto-compact 'feature' is

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/12/2009, Maarten Bezemer (mcbdove...@robuust.nl) wrote: I can see 1.1.9-1 in Experimental, but nog even in Unstable yet. So I'm not ready to try it on production machines. I could never use a distro that required me to use outdated/buggy software... -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/12/2009, Maarten Bezemer (mcbdove...@robuust.nl) wrote: Strangest thing about this is that it only seems to happen when an email is read first through webmail. What were you using for webmail again? -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/12/2009, Scott Silva (ssi...@sgvwater.com) wrote: I just found this; http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=736 I guess Outlook 2003 introduced a newer version of the PST files that has a 20GB (twenty GB ) limit, but they have to be created with 2003, and they are

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-13 Thread Aiko Barz
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:17:41AM -0800, Scott Silva wrote: on 2-12-2009 2:10 AM Aiko Barz spake the following: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:27:02PM -0500, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-12-2009 2:10 AM Aiko Barz spake the following: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:27:02PM -0500, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email client? I have had a couple of users come up with random missing

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-12 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote: Outlook does not store IMAP mail in its PST. PST's are only used for the local storage. Outlook does not crash if your IMAP mail folders are larger than 2 GB, although its IMAP implementation is pretty bad. Outlook DOES store some kind of cache of IMAP

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-12-2009 10:35 AM Maarten Bezemer spake the following: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote: Outlook does not store IMAP mail in its PST. PST's are only used for the local storage. Outlook does not crash if your IMAP mail folders are larger than 2 GB, although its IMAP

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-12-2009 3:31 PM Maarten Bezemer spake the following: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote: on 2-12-2009 10:35 AM Maarten Bezemer spake the following: Outlook DOES store some kind of cache of IMAP mail in a PST. And that PST is always located in the Local Settings directory,

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-12 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote: I just found this; http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=736 I guess Outlook 2003 introduced a newer version of the PST files that has a 20GB (twenty GB ) limit, but they have to be created with 2003, and they are not backward

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-12-2009 3:48 PM Maarten Bezemer spake the following: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote: I just found this; http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=736 I guess Outlook 2003 introduced a newer version of the PST files that has a 20GB (twenty GB ) limit, but

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-12 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by Maarten Bezemer [Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:31:28AM +0100]: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote: on 2-12-2009 10:35 AM Maarten Bezemer spake the following: It would take a LOT of messages to cache 2 GB of headers. I've seen users with about 1GB worth of Maildir folders and some

[Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread dhottinger
Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email client? I have had a couple of users come up with random missing emails. Im trying to figure out if it is user error, or something wacky in my mailserver. I cant find anything telling in maillog files

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:27 -0500, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email client? I have had a couple of users come up with random missing emails. Im trying to figure out if it is user error, or

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread dhottinger
Thanks I'll check it out. Just what I need, more log files ;-]. take care, ddh Quoting Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:27 -0500, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email client? I have

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Stewart
dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:27 -0500, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email client? I have had a couple of users come up with random missing emails. Im trying to

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread dhottinger
Quoting Jack Stewart jstew...@caltech.edu: dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:27 -0500, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email client? I have had a couple of users come

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Stewart
dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Quoting Jack Stewart jstew...@caltech.edu: dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:27 -0500, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email