[Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state

[Patrick Carney]

Yes. I was afraid of that. But the weird thing is it only happens with One
particular user. And at that, it wasn't doing it for the longest time. It
just started recently. Is there a band-aid for this. I ask because we are
not in a place to upgrade at the moment.

Thanks
Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On
Behalf Of Timo Sirainen
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:37 AM
To: Patrick Carney
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:07 -0700, Patrick Carney wrote:
> "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree
> file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted
> isn't higher than existing (2 <= 504)"

> Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take
> over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered
> Dovecot before.

You're using 0.99.x Dovecot and there's not much point anymore in trying
to figure out why it's broken. I'd suggest upgrading to 1.0beta versions
as the first step. If it still breaks after that I can help debug it
further.

Also see http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot