[Dovecot] invalid mbox files

Fri Jan 6 21:11:16 EET 2006

I am resending this because I have not gotten a response in a few days. Help is appreciated!

Timo Sirainen wrote ..
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:50 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote:
> > I recently upgraded from dovecot 0.9x to 1.0.5-Aplha and now when ever
> folders are opened (in IMAP), it keeps saying invalid mbox files. It worked
> fine in 0.99.x. It is detecting the right mbox files because it lists the
> folders and the subscriptions correctly. I am using  "default_mail_env
> = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in the config file, but I get the same
> error with "Detect automatically". It generates nothing in the log files
> so I am lost!! I tried both outlook and thunderbird but same results.
> 
> Invalid mbox file error comes only if the first line of the mbox file
> isn't valid. What does it look like? It should be something like:
> 
> From someone at somewhere  Wed Jan  5 09:03:48 2005
> 
> 0.99.x Dovecot didn't accept broken From-lines either, but it might have
> had slightly different logic in checking what's valid and what's not.

Here is a sample file generated by postfix. Note: it is NOT censored or edited. What you see is the real thing.

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