[Dovecot] imap corrupted indexes

[Ben Beuchler]

It sounds to me like the db libraries used on the two systems are
different (and incompatible).  I would delete all the .log files. 
Dovecot will regenerate them as needed, in the new format.

-Ben

On 6/27/05, Emmett Pate <emmett at epate.com> wrote:
> I've searched the archives and find a lot of references to corrupted indexes
> but can't seem to find any solutions.  It seems like folks either have the
> problem or they don't.
> 
> We recently migrated from a RedHat Linux server to an OpenBSD 3.7 server (both
> using dovecot).  Imap was working flawlessly on the RedHat box but now gives
> numerous index errors.  I then upgraded to dovecot-1.0-test66 compiled from
> ports - still no luck.  Here's an example of the errors:
> 
> Jun 27 12:02:23 mail dovecot: IMAP(epate): Corrupted transaction log file
> /home/epate/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Keyword record UIDs are broken
> Jun 27 12:02:24 mail dovecot: IMAP(epate): Lost transaction log file
> /home/epate/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 7
> 
> I found references to "disabling indexing" but they don't say how.  Would this
> be a reasonable temporary solution?  Any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Emmett Pate
> 
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