[LCA2019 Chat] Thunderbird, dovecot and imap

Trent Lloyd trent at lloyd.id.au
Tue Jan 22 10:05:34 AEDT 2019


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- Trent

> On 22 Jan 2019, at 11:51 am, Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe at atrad.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I have a thunderbird user whose laptop periodically decides to download all
> their mailboxes in full for no apparent reasons.  Only the one user sees
> this, and it happens roughly once or twice a fortnight.  There is no obvious
> trigger.
> 
> Thunderbird uses imap to communicate with the mail server, and the imap
> server is dovecot.
> 
> I would be really interested to talk to anyone who might have some idea as
> to why this might be, or things I could check.
> 
> Regards
>  jonathan
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