[imp] random message deletion?

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Mon Dec 23 17:03:46 PST 2002


Zitat von Liam Hoekenga <liamr@umich.edu>:

> We've had a couple of reports from users that claim that our IMP
> installation is
> the only mail client that they're using and that at some point they log
> in and
> all / most / some portion of their inbox is missing and the message count
> is
> lower than it should be.
> 
> Now sometimes, there's a POP client out there transfering all of their
> email
> down and deleting it, but in some cases we've confirmed that the only
> access to
> their mailbox has been using IMAP.
> 
> Can anyone of think of a circumstance where IMP would delete a large
> portion of
> a user's email w/out marking it deleted and purging (or using the "empty
> mailbox" function in the folder management)?  It seems unlikely to me,
> but we've
> had a couple of reports that we can't explain away. I've scanned our
> access logs
> for actionIDs 101 (delete), 160 (expunge) and 159 (empty mailbox), and
> it's kind
> of difficult to look at them and say which message deletions seem
> abnormal.
> 
> any ideas?

What about filter rules (especially blacklist) being applied at login?

Jan.

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