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Re: disappearing mail



At Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:03:34 +0000,
Simon Brown wrote:
>
> At Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:08:25 +0100,
> David Maus wrote:
> > At Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:51:47 -0500,
> > Vitaly Mayatskikh wrote:
> > > At Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:05:05 +0000, Simon Brown wrote:
> > > > It seems to be working well, then after a longish period of time,
> > > > maybe a month, all of my old email vanishes.
> > > >
> > > > I'm chasing this up with the server admins but does anyone else have
> > > > any similar experiences with courier IMAP servers?
> > > Nope. I'm with Courier for 6 months, I haven't noticed any mail lost.
> > Me neither.  This mail account runs on Courier for appr 9 months and
> > not a single mail lost.  I was responsible for a Courier IMAP server
> > for a couple of years and experience no loss neither.
> >
> > Question is if the mails are really gone on the server or just do not
> > show up in WL.  Did you try another mail client?
>
> I've just had a look with balsa and there's nothing there.

Ouch.

> I've changed to POP3 collection for the time being but I fear I
> might have to move to Google Apps. As I understand there are many
> happy gmail + wanderlust users.

Maybe wait until the server admins can tell you what went wrong?
Googlemail works, except the biff-functions (Google does not flag new
messages, they just appear as unread) and a (from my understanding)
noncompliant implementation of IMAP search command.

Best,
  -- David
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