[Dovecot] Mailbox is in inconsistent state

[Dion Hollenbeck]

At 06:28 AM 11/26/2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 17:30 -0700, Dion Hollenbeck wrote:
> > 3 - On windoze, with Eurora, check for new mail, "ERR Mailbox is in
> > inconsistent state, please relogin"
>
>There should be something in log files.
>
> > I also tried looking at the log, but it appears to be a binary
> > (located in /home/<username>/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log) not
> > a readable text file.
>
>You're looking into wrong place. :) See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging
>
>

Here is the actual log entries when the failure happens:

>Nov 26 10:26:47 parrot dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<hollen>, 
>method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.1.104, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.101
>Nov 26 10:26:47 parrot dovecot: POP3(hollen): UIDVALIDITY changed 
>(1196019076 -> 1196097977) in mbox file /var/mail/hollen
>Nov 26 10:26:47 parrot dovecot: POP3(hollen): Disconnected: Mailbox 
>is in inconsistent state. top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
>Nov 26 10:26:47 parrot dovecot: POP3(hollen): Couldn't init INBOX: 
>Can't sync mailbox: Messages keep getting expunged
>Nov 26 10:26:49 parrot dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<hollen>, 
>method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.1.104, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.101
>Nov 26 10:26:53 parrot dovecot: POP3(hollen): Disconnected: Logged 
>out top=0/0, retr=7/28936, del=7/7, size=28817


Previous info for context:
>Running on Fedora 7, error happening on both Dovecot 1.05, and now 
>that I upgraded to 1.07, same thing occurs.
>
>dovecot -n
>
># 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
>login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
>login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
>login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
>login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
>mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
>mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
>mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
>mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
>mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
>mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
>auth default:
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd


thanks,
dion


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