[Gllug] Courier IMAP problems

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 02:06:51PM +0100, 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?

Filesystem filling up perhaps?  On Debian, /var is used more than in other
distros.

Pete
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