[Dovecot] Couldn't init INBOX: Can't sync mailbox: Messages keep getting expunged

[Tom Sommer]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 14:20 +0100, Tom Sommer wrote:
>   
>> After updating Dovecot, 
>>     
>
> From what version?
>   
1.0 IIRC
>> one of my servers keep spamming these errors in 
>> the log:
>>
>> dovecot: Nov 03 14:14:18 Error: POP3(foo at bar.com): Getting size of 
>> message UID=4402 failed
>> dovecot: Nov 03 14:14:18 Error: POP3(foo at bar.com): Getting size of 
>> message UID=4402 failed
>> dovecot: Nov 03 14:14:18 Error: POP3(foo at bar.com): Couldn't init INBOX: 
>> Can't sync mailbox: Messages keep getting expunged
>>
>> The funny thing is the mailbox is empty, there are no mails in the 
>> folder that should be needed to be parsed
>>     
>
> So cur/ and new/ directories are empty? What does dovecot-uidlist's 4402
> entry contain?
>
>   
uidlist:
1 1153118033 595
589 1193989783.V807I470bdfM493104.mail1.foo.com:2,
590 1193758121.V807I470c85M494072.mail1.foo.com:2,
591 1193765743.V807I470cc9M240678.mail1.foo.com:2,
592 1193830823.V807I470631M932013.mail1.foo.com:2,
593 1193870066.V807I470693M319999.mail1.foo.com:2,
594 1193870277.V807I4706d9M35656.mail1.foo.com:2,

error:
dovecot: Nov 04 15:43:57 Error: POP3(X): Getting size of message UID=595 
failed
dovecot: Nov 04 15:43:57 Error: POP3(X): Getting size of message UID=595 
failed
dovecot: Nov 04 15:43:57 Error: POP3(X): Couldn't init INBOX: Can't sync 
mailbox: Messages keep getting expunged

new/:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 postfix postfix 4096 Nov  3 11:01 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 postfix postfix 4096 Nov  4 15:44 ..
-rw-------  1 postfix postfix 2783 Nov  2 18:45 
1194025559.V807I470cc9M647592.mail1.foo.com:2,

new/:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 postfix postfix 4096 Nov  3 11:01 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 postfix postfix 4096 Nov  4 15:44 ..

// Tom