Re: Pine not saving messages all the time

Mats Dufberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jun 6, 2006, 14:58 (+1000) Nick Tan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've figured out what the problem is.  Dovecot creates an index file for 
> every folder when it is first accessed.  In pine, saving a message will 
> fail if the destination folder does not have an index created.  The 
> message will get marked as deleted but not saved in the destination 
> folder.
> 
> The reason why saving worked 100% of the time the second time around was 
> that the user would go into the folder to check if it had saved 
> properly.  The act of looking at the folder would create the index file 
> for that folder. Therefore when saving the message again, it would work.
> 
> I've tested this behavior in other mail clients but only pine fails to 
> copy messages into folders which don't have an index.  Is this a bug 
> with pine?

For me it more sounds like a bug in the IMAP server. Have tested the 
behavior with other clients? Do you see any error messages from the IMAP 
server? Is pine informed by the IMAP server that saving failed?



Mats

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