[Dovecot] Reconstruct a corrupted mailbox

Chris Kenward kenwardc at tgis.co.uk
Fri Sep 8 01:40:08 EEST 2006


Hi there Fatou

> We're talkink about "corrupted Mailbox" because when we try 
> to acceed via webmail we have this message:
> ERREUR : Impossible d'achever la requête.
> Requête : SELECT "INBOX"
> Raison invoquée : Internal error occurred. Refer to server 

I've had that error. It was simply a corrupted mail file for that user in
his /var/spool/mail/$user mailbox. I deleted the top two (corrupted) lines
of mail down to the first From: line and it resolved the problem.

Regards
Chris




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