Zimbra

andreychek · #1 (**permalink**) 04-19-2006, 07:45 AM

Howdy,

When using OSS Zimbra 3.0.1 with IMAP clients and not just the web interface, we're seeing a lot of cases where the new message count within the Zimbra web interface is incorrect.

For example, one user of ours used squirrelmail to delete 3 messages the other day (his parents have dialup ;-) When he went to the Zimbra web interface, the Trash folder showed that there were 3 new messages, but really, no messages at all were in that folder (new or old). Choosing 'Empty Trash' does not solve the problem.

For me, I mainly use mutt, which uses Zimbra as an imap server. Looking in mutt now, there are no new messages. Going to the Zimbra web interface, it says that there's 60 or so new messages, but there actually aren't any new ones.

When I use the phrase "It think's there are X new messages", I'm referring to the message count in parenthesis after the folder name, in the folder list on the left.

My appologies if this was an issue already solved in 3.1.0. I have not yet upgraded, as I was hoping to wait a few days for the installer kinks to get worked out, these guys would get irate if they went without email for more than a few minutes ;-)

I didn't see it mentioned in bugzilla, the release notes, or the forum, so I figured I'd take the chance that this issue was present in 3.1.0 as well :-) If you prefer I upgrade first, I can get back to you in a few days as to whether we're still seeing this.

Thanks!
-Eric

rsharpe · #2 (**permalink**) 04-19-2006, 08:40 AM

There has been an issue floating around the forums about a similar problem with the Inbox message count in the web client. This happens when the web client and another client be it pop3 or imap are accessing the same account at the same time or in close proximity of time. The work around to this is restart tomcat.

KevinH · #3 (**permalink**) 04-19-2006, 11:29 AM

Here's at least one of the bugs about unread counts.

http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5012

If you have a use case that can reproduce it that would really help. Feel free to file a new bug if you have some set of exact steps to reproduce the bug.

andreychek · #4 (**permalink**) 04-19-2006, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

If you have a use case that can reproduce it that would really help. Feel free to file a new bug if you have some set of exact steps to reproduce the bug.

Okay, I'll work on reproducing it.

In the bug that you mentioned above, someone suggested they thought it may be calendar invite related.

I can verify that it's not shared calendar related. I'm dealing with a reasonably new installation here, and we all have yet to use the shared calendar / invite functions in this particular installation.

But, I'll ask the users to try and come up with a series of steps to reproduct.

Thanks,
-Eric

andreychek · #5 (**permalink**) 04-19-2006, 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

If you have a use case that can reproduce it that would really help. Feel free to file a new bug if you have some set of exact steps to reproduce the bug.

Okay, one of the guys claims to be able to reproduce it with these steps:

* have zimbra open and have another client open like squirrelmail.
* send yourself an email
* delete it in squirrelmail without reading it
* empty trash in squirrelmail
* go back to zimbra and you'll see trash can has increased the number in parens next to it
* there's nothing in the can

He also made mention of something about a Zimbra hat.... ;-)

Anyhow, I'll pretty this up, and post it into a new bug.
-Eric