Delivery and fetching of new email inconsistent

[Alain Spineux]

On 10/2/07, Brian Wong <bwlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/07, Brian Wong <bwlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/2/07, Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/2/07, Brian Wong <bwlist at gmail.com> 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
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