[Dovecot] Doubled mails and UIDs

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Wed Mar 21, 2007 at 22:37:10 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.

Our IMAP(s)/POP3(s) server is a single host so this should not happen.
 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxProblems anyway lists all the possible
> reasons for that problem.

I've now put the whole Mail directory of the user on a local filesystem
to see if that makes a difference.



Adam
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