[Dovecot] Error in rename uidlist while fetching through pop3

[Andrew Hucthings]

Those were the errors I was getting when my server's hdd corrupted and
locked into readonly mode.  It basically means dovecot can't read the
file.

Regards
Andrew


On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 19:55 -0700, James Berry wrote:
> My dovecot server seems to randomly begin giving errors to pop3 users  
> who try to fetch their email. Once this begins, they see no more new  
> mail, though the mail is in cur.
> 
> Running: dovecot-stable 20050501, Mac OS X 10.3.9
> 
> Log entries like this:
> 
> May  2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: pop3-login: Login: kim [24.22.16.169]
> May  2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): rename(/Users/kim/Maildir/ 
> dovecot-uidlist.lock, /Users/kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed:  
> Input/output error
> May  2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): file_dotlock_replace(/Users/ 
> kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error
> 
> 
> Is this a known problem, and/or is there a known way to recover from  
> such a situation? I'm managed to throw out the uidlist, but that  
> means they get a whole dump of new mail.
> 
> -jdb
> 
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