[Dovecot] courier-dovecot-migrate.pl destroyed my indices... still recovering...

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

I tried to disable courier-pop3 today in favour of dovecot pop3.
Prior to that I ran:

find /home -maxdepth 1 -type d  | xargs --replace /usr/local/scripts/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --overwrite --recursive --convert {}

( /home is hashed two levels deep: /home/a/a/aanton/Maildir/ )

After that, I got lots of errors like:

Aug  9 13:02:40 postamt dovecot: IMAP(azenclu): Maildir /home/a/z/azenclu/Maildir sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1167827929 -> 1058881980)
Aug  9 13:03:46 postamt dovecot: POP3(bbuhse): Couldn't init INBOX: BUG: Unknown internal error
Aug  9 13:03:46 postamt dovecot: POP3(bbuhse): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
Aug  9 13:04:14 postamt dovecot: IMAP(bkusma): Maildir /home/b/k/bkusma/Maildir sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1179153053 -> 1174292827)
Aug  9 13:04:19 postamt dovecot: IMAP(am02): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/m/am02/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed
Aug  9 13:04:28 postamt deliver(avolz): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/v/avolz/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed
Aug  9 13:04:51 postamt dovecot: IMAP(ck05): Maildir /home/c/k/ck05/Maildir sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1167893115 -> 1094733247)
Aug  9 13:05:11 postamt deliver(agundlfi): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/g/agundlfi/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed
Aug  9 13:05:50 postamt dovecot: IMAP(asorigue): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/s/asorigue/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed
Aug  9 13:06:04 postamt dovecot: IMAP(azenclu): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/z/azenclu/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed
Aug  9 13:06:08 postamt dovecot: IMAP(coneck): Maildir /home/c/o/coneck/Maildir sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1164189070 -> 1058892719)

Dovecot would recover from that (deliver would deliver the mail on the
next queue run) -- but why is that?
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Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de)             plonk at charite.de
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