I'm looking for a little guidance troubleshooting a caching problem.
I have an old linux box (2 GHz / 512 MB RAM) setup for a client running postfix, dovecot, and roundcube.
They ran RoundCube 0.2 for a year without reporting any issues. I recently upgraded them to RoundCube 0.3 (which they love by the way) and they started reporting this strange issue:
UserA would login, check their mail, read/reply and delete everything in their inbox.
UserA would stay logged in throughout the day.
At some point, a new message or messages would arrive for UserA.
According to the mail logs, the message(s) would be correctly delivered into UserA's inbox via Dovecot's deliver app.
UserA would not see the message in RC. UserA would try hitting send/receive, switch to different folders and then back to the inbox, and even logging out/logging back in. The message would still not show up in RC.
At some point, one of two things happens that resolves the issue:
- UserA waits for a while (a few minutes to a few days) and the message suddenly appears.
- UserA sends a new message to someone (anyone) and after it's sent the missing message(s) immediately show up in their inbox.
A few things I have checked:
- Not on an NFS filesystem. Mail is stored on a local ext3 partition.
- While UserA is not seeing the new messages, I have verified the messages actually exist and have the correct permissions on the filesystem.
- cleared the 'cache', 'messages', and 'session' tables in the RC database.
- Mail logs definitely show messages arriving and being delivered even though I can't see the message in RC.
- If I have both RC and Thunderbird open at the same time, I can see the message immediately in Thunderbird, but not RC.
Disabling RC's caching via $rcmail_config['enable_caching'] = FALSE; fixes the problem and prevents it from happening again.
I'm stumped on the next step. I have no problem leaving caching disabled because none of our users have more than 100 messages in any one folder and RC is running on the same machine that dovecot is running on.
But I would like to figure out if this is something I screwed up, or maybe something in the RC code.
Any pointers on what to check next? (I'm not that familiar with the RC code, but I can do some PHP hacking/debugging if needed.)
Thanks for everyone's hard work by the way. RoundCube is the best open source webmail app I have ever used.
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