Stephen Usher put forth on 3/5/2011 10:04 AM: > I know that this is a somewhat old thread but I do have some useful input. > > Basically, this seems to be a Thunderbird problem (or at least an > interaction problem between Thunderbird and Dovecot). > > Before Thunderbird version 3 there wasn't a problem, the mailbox within > Thunderbird would sync correctly. As of version 3 they seem to have > changed their mailbox header list caching code and it gets horribly > confused when mails disappear from the mailbox without it doing so. The > only way to fix the view within the program is the rebuild the > (Thunderbird) index. > > This is not the only problem TB3 has with Dovecot. Quite often if there > are large attachments TB doesn't fully load the attachments (and > sometimes not even the mail itself). I've found changing TBs setting so > that it only uses one connection to the server rather than the default 5 > helps mitigate this. > > I'm not sure why TB3 has such a hard time when talking to Dovecot as no > other clients have any difficulty and TB2 never did.
I don't believe it's an issue of Tbird talking to Dovecot, and I don't believe it's a Dovecot issue. I believe it's a combination of the TB GLODA system and local folder synchronization. I recommend you disable both of these, close TB, then manually delete all local cached folder/message copies and the gloda database in the user profile, then launch TB. And never reenable local sync or GLODA. This should fix your problem. And make sure *all* IMAP clients accessing the mailbox expunge on exit, including your smart phone, etc. -- Stan
