[Dovecot] Message index corruption when using Thunderbird and Dovecot

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

I had one similar problem with beta 1 or beta 2 (I'm sure it was between 
1.0alpha5 and 1.0beta2 because my first
version used was around 2 days before 1.0beta1 was released).

Environment: Thunderbird 1.5 (and pine).

I had some character corruptions. After restart of thunderbird everything 
was fine again.

I grepped through my log files, only one entry:
Corrupted index cache file /home/user/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: 
invalid field header size

Maybe it helps.

I know this is not a quite good bug report but it only happened once.

Ciao,
Gerhard


On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 12:16 +0000, Reuben Pearse wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have recently upgraded from UW-IMAP to Dovecot 1.0.beta3 on Redhat9. I
>> migrated my mailbox to from Mbox to Maildir using the mb2md perl script,
>> and created a procmail recipe file to get email arriving in the Maildir
>> directories. However, when accessing my mailbox from Thunderbird
>> (version 1.5), it occasionally mixes up the email header with the email
>> content. I also occasionally get errors like this when clicking on old
>> messages (ones that got converted as part of the mb2md script).
>>
>> The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in
>> IMAP command UID:
>> Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in '<16384.-15744>'
>
> Are you absolutely sure it's beta3 you're using? These kinds of problems
> exist in 1.0-stable versions, but they were fixed a long time ago and I
> haven't heard of them since.
>
>