[Dovecot] (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external)

[Sean Porter]

I'm seeing this error in my maillog with the same symptoms as well -- 
FreeBSD 4.9, dovecot test52, mysql authentication, maildirs stored on 
NFS (but indexes stored on local disk, as suggested in the 
documentation.)

My solution is to remove the indexes from the local disk and then it 
seems to work.


dovecot was built with:
./configure --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl


My dovecot.conf settings:

base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/
protocols = imap pop3
ssl_disable = yes
ssl_parameters_file = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat
disable_plaintext_auth = no
login_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_process_size = 128
login_greeting = IMAP server ready.
first_valid_uid = 125
first_valid_gid = 125
mail_extra_groups = mail postfix
valid_chroot_dirs = /host/mail
default_mail_env = maildir:/host/mail/%u:INDEX=/home/dovecot/indexes/%u
protocol imap {
   login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
   mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
   mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/rawlog 
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
   imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle oe6-fetch-no-newmail 
tb-negative-fetch
}

protocol pop3 {
   login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
   mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
   pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls
}
auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
auth_verbose = yes
auth_debug = yes
auth default {
   mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5
   userdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
   passdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
}

Thanks,

Sean

On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:51 AM, Alex S Moore wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:29 +0000, Mark Lidstone wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone's seen anything like this?
>
> Yes, I am seeing exactly the same thing.  Except that it started
> happening on INBOX, which renders the client email program unusable.
> Lots of lost connections, cannot select INBOX, etc. errors on the 
> client
> side.  The messages that you posted are in the dovecot server's log.
>
> I am running test52 on Solaris.  The maildir is in the user's home
> directory on a nfs server.
>
> There are some post-test52 fixes in CVS, but I do not know if this
> particular problem is addressed.
>
> Alex
>
>