[Dovecot] One user having reproducible IMAP issues

[Alex Boster]

Does anyone have a quick recipe for how to do the filtering?

We are on CentOS 4 using a near default setup...

Thanks for the help!
Alex

On Mar 16, 2007, at 5:26 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 13:26 -0700, Alex Boster wrote:
>
> X-IMAPbase: 1173814340 4280058374 $NotJunk JunkRecorded
> X-UID: 4280058361
>
> This is your problem. Your UID has gotten higher than 2^31 which
> confuses many clients, even though it's still valid from IMAP  
> protocol's
> point of view.
>
> As for why it has gotten this high.. Well, recent Dovecot RCs could
> break them sometimes, but at least with 1.0.rc27 everything should be
> working.
>
> If you remove the X-IMAPbase, X-IMAP and X-UID headers and delete
> Dovecot's index files the messages will be given new UIDs beginning  
> from
> 1.
>
> If this just keeps happening, then I think it's because the incoming
> mails contains invalid X-UID headers. Normally those shouldn't break
> anything as long as you haven't deleted Dovecot's index files or the
> mbox file isn't empty. If they do and you can figure out how to
> reproduce it, please let me know.
>
> Anyway, the problems would most likely go away if you just filter out
> all the X-UID headers from incoming mails. See the bottom of
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxProblems