[Dovecot] headers don't match message

[Chris Wakelin]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:49:35 -0700 Kevin <angrycoggy at gmail.com> wrote:

> the other day i moved all mail functions to a different machine.  i
> copied over my existing maildir's and installed
> dovecot-stable-20050405.

What version did you have on the old machine? Did you copy the index 
files as well?

> 
> once i had everything moved and dovecot running i checked my mail via
> imap.  all the messages appeared however when i try to read a message
> the message body doesn't match the header info that's showed in the
> message list.
> 
> is this an index problem?  or did i corrupt my maildir when i moved it
> over to another host?
> 

Probably an index problem. I'd try deleting them. Did you see any 
errors in the Dovecot logs?

Best Wishes,
Chris

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