[Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state

[Jeff Graves]

The only quick and easy band-aid I can think of is to delete the indexes and
let dovecot recreate them.

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Jeff Graves, MCSA
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-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On
Behalf Of Patrick Carney
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:44 PM
To: 'Timo Sirainen'
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state


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