[Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format - error

Götz Reinicke goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de
Tue Oct 19 15:21:55 EEST 2004



Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 19.10.2004, at 10:51, Götz Reinicke wrote:
> 
>> But today users told me that there where some problems; e.g. a user 
>> tried to delete a message and got this error:
>>
>> Oct 19 09:43:13 mail imap(jmeinken): File isn't in mbox format: 
>> /home/mitarbeiter/jmeinken//Trash
> 
> 
> The mbox probably has an extra empty line at the beginning of it. 
> Dovecot sometimes does that and then breaks itself. If this happens 
> often, I'd suggest trying 1.0-tests which have rewritten mbox code.

This sounds not a good idea to me, to use a testsoftware on a production 
mailserver with 500 Users... :-|


Regards

Götz Reinicke
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