Cyrus and Mozilla (and other multi-threaded clients)

[Luca Olivetti]

Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> 
> This issue also appears to cause problems with the junk-mail controls in
> Mozilla, which use a Bayesian technique to identify likely spam in
> incoming mail, and (usually) move it to a specified folder. Messages
> that get moved to my junk-mail folder often get duplicated, sometimes
> several times. I'm guessing this is because the move operation causes
> one thread to set \Deleted, but parallel threads don't always see this,
> and as such the message can be moved multiple times, before the deleted
> status "takes".

see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195787

> Is there a work around for these problems? Is it anything Cyrus can fix,
> or is it inherent in the design of the client? I'd appreciate anyone who
> can improve my understanding of exactly what goes on, and tell me if
> theres anything I can do about it. I can live with it if not, but a
> workaround/fix would be nice.

Sure, upgrade to mozilla 1.6 or thunderbird 0.5. They use "status" to 
check for new mail instead of downloading all the headers, and perform 
bayesian filtering only when you select a mailfolder. As a result I 
didn't see the problem with moz1.6/thunderbird 0.5.

Bye
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Luca Olivetti
Wetron Automatización S.A. http://www.wetron.es/
Tel. +34 93 5883004      Fax +34 93 5883007
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