[Gllug] Courier IMAP problems

[Stephen Harker]

David Pashley wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2003 at 14:19, Pete Ryland praised the llamas by saying:
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> Nope, courier uses ~/Maildir for a mailstore. This is strange problem.
> I've been using courier on Debian machines for several years at several
> sites and I've never once had a complaint about missing files. The only
> thing I can think of is FS corruption. Have you tried posting to the
> Courier mailing list. I'm sorry I don't have the address.

I think I will send the Courier List an email and see what happens. 
Thanks for all your help.
SteveH


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