How to debug dovecot

heinzb

I have a strange behaviour somewhere in dovecot:

if I delete some messages in the inbox with the my mail client and/or with the WebMailer Sogo the messages reappear after a few minutes.

What is the best way to debug this ?

pkernstock

Check the dovecot logs. Or maybe some IMAP client is doing weird things - so you could exit them one-by-one if behavior changes.

ETNyx

Hello, every time when this happens to me, I find out I forgot to remove IMAP Sync in MC after moving mailbox from old server, so check this too :-)

Edit: and for debugging add this in your data/conf/dovecot/extra.conf

plugin {
  mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge save copy mailbox_create mailbox_delete mailbox_rename
  mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from subject
  mail_log_cached_only = no
}

to log specific IMAP actions to default MC logs,.. Also pleas refer to Dovecto docs