Re: Delivery and fetching of new email inconsistent

From: Alain Spineux (no email)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - 19:28:59 EDT

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    On 10/2/07, Brian Wong <> wrote:
    > On 10/2/07, Brian Wong <> wrote:
    > > On 10/2/07, Alain Spineux <> wrote:
    > > > On 10/2/07, Brian Wong <> wrote:
    > > > > List,
    > > > > I am in the process of migrating to Cyrus IMAP. I have a test server
    > > > > (CentOS 5 x86_64) with several accounts and I look forward to placing
    > > > > the IMAP server in production but I have recently noticed a problem.
    > > > >
    > > > > Certain emails that are delivered into a mailbox are not visible to
    > > > > the email client. I believe this may have to do with consecutive
    > > > > emails to the same mailbox with minimal time between the deliveries,
    > > > > but I can not consistently reproduce the problem. In this case, two
    > > > > separate and different emails are delivered and only the first is
    > > > > visible. I do not believe this is a client specific problem. I have
    > > > > the general log files indicating delivery and protocol telemetry logs
    > > > > for the user in question.
    >
    > I seem to have more success reproducing this problem if I delete and
    > expunge messages before immediately injecting messages through LMTP by
    > using a small script on the MTA.
    > I can not say for sure if this is isolated to LMTP.

    I dont thins this is related to LMTP. LMTP is a separate process of IMAPD.

    >
    > I have rebuilt the IMAP server without the INTERNALDATE patch from
    > fastmail and I am still having this problem.
    >
    > I know this is a very high level description of the problem. The logs
    > describing the problem that I attached to my original post is the best
    > I can do. Can anyone suggest how I can examine this problem more
    > closely?
    >

    No idea.
    Try to report a BUG

    Or you could try to insert some delay between mail deliveries at MTA level !
    If you use postfix you can ask it to send one and only one email per
    LMTP connection.

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    Alain Spineux
    aspineux gmail com
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