[Gllug] Courier IMAP problems

[Xander D Harkness]

Stephen Harker wrote:

> Hi All.
> I recently transferred the company email from uw-imap on Mandrake 9.0 
> to Courier-imap on Debian Woody. It all works fine and dandy except 
> that very occasionally, emails will go missing. Usually when someone 
> has filed an email away from their Inbox to a sub-directory somewhere 
> and then gone looking for it later, and it's not there. I at first 
> assumed that it was Outlook Express so I got them using Mozilla. But 
> then it happened again and also recently to myself (using Evolution). 
> So I'm now assuming there is some strangeness going on with Courier or 
> Debian.
> Could it be because the Mail partition is an ext3 filesystem?
> Is there any reason why this should happen?
> I don't really even know where to start looking as it is such an 
> infrequent and inconsistent problem. Google hasn't as yet turned 
> anything up.
> Clues?
> SteveH
>
>
It might be that the mails have been saved to directories that you are 
not subscribed to (this has happened to me on sent emails.)

Try using subscribe to folders under mozilla to see if there are any 
mail directories that you are not subscribed to :-)

Cheers
Xander

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