Date:  Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:33:39 +0200
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:09370] Re: AW:  Re: AW:  Re: Dovecot problem after update
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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> > > They probably haven't set amount of days to expire, so 
> messages are 
> > > kept on a server forever.
> > > 
> > 
> > and you think that makes a difference in dovecot's behaviour? ;) 
> 
> No, but looking back at this I know why this happened.  You 
> indicated that
> while testing you were able to login but did not see any 
> messages and you
> then realized you had to also change the line in the .conf 
> that has the
> Homedir setting and that after that you were able to download.
> 
> Well it sounds to me like your mail client got confused when 
> you checked and
> it saw an empty mail box and then you checked again and saw 
> some new and
> some old mail.  I saw this once before myself. Do you see 
> where I am going
> with this? It was your pop client NOT the server.  If you had 
> properly set
> the maildir from the beginning this would not have happened.
> 
> I hope that makes sense to all.


Absolutely right.
This is what I tried, unsuccessfuly, to say in my previous post. :)


Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

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