[Dovecot] Problems fetching mail

[Curt LeCaptain]

-----Original Message-----
From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:26 PM
To: Curt LeCaptain
Cc: Dovecot Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Problems fetching mail

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 17:10 -0500, Curt LeCaptain wrote:
> 
> dovecot: Mar 12 17:04:09 Error: IMAP(example): mbox sync: UID inserted

> in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/example
> (2366574855 > 1, seq=1, idx_msgs=3)
> dovecot: Mar 12 17:04:09 Error: IMAP(example): mbox sync: UID inserted

> in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/example
> (2366574855 > 1, seq=1, idx_msgs=3)

This is probably the cause of all your problems.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxProblems explains what it means.

Are you maybe changing the INBOX's location? For example if Dovecot
sometimes accessed INBOX from /var/mail/example, and other times from
~/mail/inbox this could happen. But why it would use two different
INBOXes I don't know.

Then again there still were a few mbox bugs in rc26. You could try if
the upcoming rc27 fixed them. It'll be released tomorrow, or you can
already get basically the same version from
http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-latest.tar.gz

According to your other e-mail, you asked me to also remove the indexes
from the ~/mail/.imap directory, I did so and this time the out of
sequence error didn't happen, but the same error in Thunderbird did
(Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid UID messageset."

I see a suggestion about the SMTP server and header filtering.  I'm not
sure I want to do this right now, but could Postfix be causing some of
these issues?  Might be a bit far fetched, but I'm just looking for any
ideas.