I have used Linux for a number of years, but still I feel myself as a newbie. Therefore it seems to me that you need to be a real expert to solve any problem, that in the first place should be so easy to setup, with the B3 web interface and all.
the answer is in /var/log/mail.log, but your problem is not with dovecot, but with fetchmail and postfix.
I can live with that it's not Dovecot that are the main reason for all my problem, but I find the B3 system very sensitive to any change you make. In my case, I feel the main problem started when I changed the setup from "Router + Firewall + Server" profile to "Server only" profile for a short time, and my move back to the "Router + Firewall + Server" profile.
About the /var/log/mail.log file, it says almost nothing to me about the reason for why it only will retreive new email, and not all of them.
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Sep 25 08:00:04 b3 postfix/pickup[31789]: ABB8624002: uid=0 from=<root>
Sep 25 08:00:04 b3 postfix/cleanup[31943]: ABB8624002: message-id=<20110925060004.ABB8624002@b3.localdomain>
Sep 25 08:00:04 b3 postfix/qmgr[23403]: ABB8624002: from=<root@b3.localdomain>, size=831, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 25 08:00:04 b3 postfix/local[31945]: ABB8624002: to=<root@b3.localdomain>, orig_to=<root>, relay=local, delay=0.14, delays=0.07/0.03/0/0.03, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
Sep 25 08:00:04 b3 postfix/qmgr[23403]: ABB8624002: removed
Sep 25 08:01:21 b3 fetchmail[26359]: 111 messages (111 seen) for user_x@telia.com at mailin.telia.com.
Sep 25 08:01:22 b3 fetchmail[26359]: 38 messages (38 seen) for user_y@gmail.com at imap.gmail.com.
Sep 25 08:06:23 b3 fetchmail[26359]: 111 messages (111 seen) for user_x@telia.com at mailin.telia.com.
Sep 25 08:06:24 b3 fetchmail[26359]: 38 messages (38 seen) for user_y@gmail.com at imap.gmail.com.
As seen, no error messages here.
I have now tried to add my domain to the email settings in the web interface, according to the B3 manual, page 84, but even after a restart, nothing have changed. I have no more ideas to where to look or what to do. I don't what to mess up the system even more, if it's possible to "rescue" it as it is. If anyone have any tip or hint on any config file orlog file content I should be looking for, or anything. Please let me know.
LATER:
Did find a "fetchall" parameter I added to the /etc/fetchmailrc file for my gmail account just to try, and it have now download all email from my gmail account. SInce I had the "keep" parameter, I was warned that it's not a useful setup, since it will download duplicates of all email for every session, but this was only a test. Anyway, it seems to work, and that is a real step in the right direction. I will test further on here.