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List:       sqwebmail
Subject:    [sqwebmail] Re: pop3d bug (was: (sort-of urgent) can't delete emails)
From:       Jesse Guardiani <jesse () wingnet ! net>
Date:       2003-04-28 16:40:10
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OK.

Mr. Sam, list,

I narrowed down the cause of my problems:

Apparently, the pop3d daemon has a bug.

This bug manifests itself if the following
conditions are met:

1.) user has "leave copy of message on server" set to ON

2.) Mail is in the "new" subfolder.

If those two criteria are met, then pop3d will
move each email message to from the "new" subfolder
to the "cur" subfolder and mangle the filename by
appending an extra 'info' part.

Actually, it mangles the filename even if the
user is NOT using "leave a copy of message on folder",
but pop3d deletes the message after it is moved,
so it doesn't become a problem then.

This is totally unrelated to sqwebmail, except
for the fact that sqwebmail cannot delete such
messages.

sqwebmail does NOT exhibit this broken behavior
when it moves messages from the "new" to "cur"
subfolder. sqwebmail renames the files properly.

I'll cross-post this message to the courier
mailling list.

Thanks!


On Monday 28 April 2003 11:08, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm having a really wierd problem.

<snip>

> Problem:
> --------
> _Some_ of my users can't delete their mail.
>
> I think the problem is related to filenames.
>
> The symptoms are that sqwebmail users with this
> problem can't delete messages in any folder.
>
> Typically, the filename for such a non-deletable
> file looks like this:
>
> 1051081909.000000.mbox:2,S:2,
>
> Note the duplicate 'info' part (duplicate ':'
> characters). If I manually remove everything
> after the second ':', like this:
>
> 1051081909.000000.mbox:2,S
>
>
> then the email becomes deletable again.
>
> The wierd thing is that my mbox-maildir migration
> scripts did NOT create filenames with two ':'
> characters. This seems to be something that
> sqwebmail has added, post-migration, thus making
> the file not deletable.
>
> ALL NEW INCOMING MAIL is fine. New messages CAN be
> deleted. It's just certain email messages from the
> migration that cannot be deleted.

<snip>

-- 
Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
WingNET Internet Services,
P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605
423-559-LINK (v)  423-559-5145 (f)
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