** Nicolas Paccaud npaccaud@taonix.fr [2010-02-26 08:25]:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:13:09 +0000, Paul Tansom paul@aptanet.com wrote:
That does sound the most likely given that all the messages have
vanished.
I have had problems with vanishing messages with Roundcube myself though.
In my case it wasn't the whole lot, but odd individual messages. At the time the mail was accessed with Roundcube 0.1-stable and Thunderbird (2.x),
with
Dovecot supplying IMAP only (i.e. POP3 wasn't enabled at all). The only accounts with problems were the ones that used Roundcube regularly, the ones that used Mutt (direct to the Maildir, not IMAP) and Thunderbird had no problems at all (and handled much higher volumes of mail).
I have had similar problems with Roundcube 0.1 too. Account was accessed by Roundcube and Thunderbird 2 with imap (dovecot too), but never the two at the same time. I have experienced "message vanishing" few times.
I didn't had the time to investigate this, but now I'm using roundcube 0.3.1, with the same setup, since few weeks and I have no problem to report.
Hope this helps
** end quote [Nicolas Paccaud]
Sounds encouraging, thanks. It seems to match my experience exactly, so I may download the latest version and take another look. I certainly haven't seen anything that is, on 'paper', an apealing alternative - bar the concerns about lost mail that is!