[Dovecot] Mailbox is in inconsistent state

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Nov 26 20:50:26 EET 2007


On 26.11.2007, at 18.50, Dion Hollenbeck wrote:

>> 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

I think there's a problem with mailbox autodetection. If /var/mail/ 
hollen file ever gets deleted, Dovecot fallbacks to using ~/mail/ 
inbox. Set explicitly:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

That hopefully fixes this.

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