[LCA2019 Chat] Thunderbird, dovecot and imap

Jason Lewis jason at dickson.st
Tue Jan 22 10:07:20 AEDT 2019


maybe you could get some IMAP logging out of Thunderbird, and that would
give you more clues as to why its happening?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging

Jason

On 22/1/19 11:51 am, Jonathan Woithe 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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