[Dovecot] Just delete that index

[Doug Luce]

I've noticed that the IMAP connection is closed (Pine reports 
INBOX(CLOSED)) right after those messages.  Other than login messages,
those are the only Dovecot messages in my maillog.

Can I do something else to help with diagnosis?

Doug






On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:40:41 +0200
> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> To: Doug Luce <doug at dovecot.con.com>
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Just delete that index
> 
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 05:02 -0500, Doug Luce wrote:
>> I get a few messages of this ilk each day:
>>
>> Dec 16 01:56:31 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): Corrupted index cache file
>> /home/doug/Maildir/.users.joe/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed
>
> That is not an error, but it usually happens because of an error.
> Doesn't it say anything else? It basically means that dovecot.index file
> was recreated for some reason (it was corrupted or deleted).
>
> One day I'll get rid of that error message unless the change really was
> unexpected..
>
>> I usually address this by deleting dovecot.* in the directory of issue.  I
>> was thinking that I could instead just have the server delete these files
>> and attempt to recreate them, and skipping that error message unless the
>> re-created files are also corrupted.
>
> Deleting the files shouldn't make any difference, because that message
> just said they were recreated. Or does it keep breaking unless they are
> deleted?
>
>