[Dovecot] corrupted inboxes

[Josh Burley]

Nope, nothing in the logs when it showed the single mail... nor was I 
using KMail (as another user just had the same sort of problem, but it 
was limited to KMail).

I attempted an upgrade again last night, but was unable to get it 
working. The error on startup was simply:

Mar 14 21:18:16 core dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up
Mar 14 21:18:17 core dovecot: Auth process died too early -
           shutting down
Mar 14 21:18:17 core dovecot: child 10499 (auth) killed with
           signal 11
Mar 14 21:18:17 core dovecot: child 10500 (auth) killed with
           signal 11

I believe it's simply a configuration error on my part, but I was unable 
to get any further information to help me narrow down where the problem 
is. I eventually had to revert to the 0.99.x version so that users would 
stop bugging me about their mail access ;).

We are using OpenLDAP (I noticed a msg today about OpenLDAP support not 
working?). No core file was created...

Any tips?

/me tries desperately to hang on to Dovecot, and not go the Cyrus/UW 
route again.

Thanks again!
.josh

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 11:02 -0800, Josh Burley wrote:
> 
>>When I was having trouble with some users getting other users' mailboxes 
>>I tried upgrading to dovecot-stable-20050302 (dovecot-1.0-test59). After 
>>getting it installed and configured, though, half of the users could 
>>read their inbox fine, and the other half would only see a single email 
>>in the inbox (the oldest one, it seemed... separators not being 
>>recognized between emails for some users? weird...).
> 
> 
> There may be some temporary problems when upgrading, but they should all
> sort themselves out after one relogin..
> 
> Did Dovecot's log files say anything then? It shouldn't be possible that
> it only shows the oldest email. If it doesn't detect the separators it
> then shows the whole mbox as a single mail (caching IMAP clients could
> show the old first message's cached message body though). If that
> happens, do 'grep "^From " mbox' and email me the results and I'll fix
> the problem.
>