[Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file

Troy Engel tengel at fluid.com
Wed Mar 28 23:55:25 EEST 2007


Jay Chandler wrote:
> Keep getting this error within Squirrelmail (and other clients) on one 
> particular user's mailbox file:
> ...
> Anyone have any ideas?  Only one user out of many is having this issue, 
> but he's whiny...

Try taking the physical mbox file, putting it on a client machine with 
Thunderbird in the <profile>Mail/Local Folders/ directory, then allow 
Thunderbird to open/rewrite/save it back out. Then stick it back on your 
server and see if that fixes it...

Or, maybe even do the above, create a *new* folder and drag&drop all the 
messages from folder A into folder B (so a fresh-write would have to 
happen), then put folder B back onto the server named as the original. 
TBird reads/writes regular old normal mbox files.

Just some ideas, hth.
-te

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Troy Engel | Systems Engineer
Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com


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