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List:       dovecot
Subject:    Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot - T-Bird - RETR command failed
From:       Timo Sirainen <tss () iki ! fi>
Date:       2008-08-29 4:48:42
Message-ID: 1219985322.14366.276.camel () hurina
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On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 10:06 -0600, Calvin Gordon wrote:
> This morning during another RETR command error in T-Bird i got the 
> following info from the use/maildir/cur directory
> 
> [root@mailserver cur]# ls -lh
> 
> total 3.1M
> 
> -rw------- 1 username users 35K 2008-08-27 13:57 
> 1219867052.V811I47642dM988688.mailserver.company.com:2,S
..
> What is the "'S" behind the offending file name ?
> 
> What is the ",S" behind the offending filenane ?

It's a \Seen flag. The POP3 client doesn't even see it. It's there
because client had issued the RETR command for the message so Dovecot
marked it as \Seen.

> I also did a head on the offending file (edited to protect the confused)

I didn't see anything special in it.

My suggestions still are:

> > The problem probably goes away if you enable SSL. Or maybe you could
> > configure the firewalls not to look inside the POP3 traffic.

At least try if it goes away with pop3s. It most likely does.

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