[Dovecot] Lost email (inbox) TWICE

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 17:44 -0400, Sezer Yalcin wrote:
> I have been losing my inbox. It happened twice. (2 days ago and just half an 
> hour ago)
> 
> I am using RHEL 4.0 with dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4

First of all I'd suggest not using 0.99 Dovecot. The mbox handling code
has been rewritten in 1.0rcs completely.

> Has anybody experienced this? Any suggestions to recover inbox? File was 
> reset to 0 bytes (could be deleted as well), when i did 'stat' on file, 
> there was a file with 1 new message, all were lost.

However even 0.99 shouldn't delete the mailbox or truncate the mbox to 0
bytes in any case, unless the client explicitly tells it to expunge all
mails from it..

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