Re: blank messages

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:20:10 +0200,
David Maus wrote:
> 
> David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> >Well, I finally managed to reproduce the problem with tracing on.
> >Clearing elmo's cache doesn't seem to help.  The trace is at
> >http://gist.github.com/464701
> 
> Am I right that the IMAP folder %zz_mairix-results contains search
> results of a local mairx search?

No, a remote one.

> If so, you might try:
> 
>  1. Take a look in the local folder if the messages there contain a
>     message body;
>
>  2. If so, copy the message (not the symlink) in a new IMAP folder and
>     see if the problem hits;
> 
> If you already use a local IMAP server, you might as well try to skip
> mairix and use WL to search for messages: Some IMAP servers
> (e.g. Dovecot) index their messages and hence IMAP searches are quite
> fast.

I use dovecot remotely.

> A vague guess: If this problem occurs in zz_mairix-results only

This is the first time I've seen it in that particular folder.

> it might be, that the IMAP server somehow gets confused by the
> mairix folder.  E.g. If you perform a search, mairix places the
> symlinks in the local folder and the IMAP server has to update it's
> housekeeping about this folder.  Such a mailbox with rapidly
> changing content might not be handled well; after all: from my
> understanding of IMAP such a folder that changes it's entire context
> (very often) is quite unusual.

Thanks for the ideas, but I think our quarry is up a different tree,
since it can happen anywhere.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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