[Dovecot] Doubled mails and UIDs

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 21 22:37:10 EET 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:19 +0100, Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
> 
> > > dovecot: Mar 18 22:08:05 Error: POP3(joe): mbox sync: UID inserted
> in the middle of mailbox /home/joe/Mail/INBOX (442671 > 80, seq=10,
> idx_msgs=153)
> > 
> > Show me your dovecot -n output? Where are the index files located?
> 
> The index files are on NFS (home directory), ~/Mail/INBOX points to
> /var/mail/joe on local fs. 

Is Dovecot running on more than one computer? That error message looks
exactly like what would happen if Dovecot saw two different INBOXes but
the same index files were tried to be used with both of them.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxProblems anyway lists all the possible
reasons for that problem.

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