[Dovecot] Corrupt mbox folders after migration from uw-imap

[Ian Mortimer]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 22:39 -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:

> hmm well I've had similar problems if the dovecot index got corrupted
> somehow.  Try removing the index (the .imap directory in the same folder
> as the bad mbox file) and see if that helps ... 

In all these cases (so far) the corrupt folder is the inbox in the
mail spool.  The index file is in the user's home directory 
~/mail/.imap/INBOX (which is mounted over NFS from the file server).

Removing that doesn't fix this problem.  However I have found the
problem with this particular INBOX at least.  There are some 
messages with corrupt or missing From lines near the top of the 
folder.  Deleting those fixes this inbox.

What I'm concerned about is: are we going to see more of these?

> if not, someone who
> actually knows something about dovecot will have to chime in.

That's what I was hoping for! 
 

-- 
Ian