[Dovecot] Strange errors

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:38 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > One of our users seems to have strange problems with his mailbox:
> > 
> > Oct  2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Corrupted transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1096, but next_uid = 1097
> > Oct  2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Corrupted transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1096, but next_uid = 1097
> > Oct  2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index
> > Oct  2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted
> > 
> > Oct  2 02:40:54 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Unlinked a duplicate: 1191278050.P11797Q0M631938.postamt.charite.de,S=3164:2,
> > Oct  2 02:40:54 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Maildir /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (1097 > 1096, file = 1191278202.P12120Q0M512940.postamt.charite.de,S=5349:2,)
> 
> Does he have direct access to the maildir?

No.

> Do you use Dovecot's deliver or something else to deliver the new
> mails?

No, we only use deliver.

But: I have a nightly scan of all mailboxes for viruses, which I
delete directly from the maildir. But this account is the only one to
expose the errors shown above in a regualr fashion.

> Or does new mail get delivered to these mailboxes only via IMAP
> COPY/APPEND?

It's a normal email account, so he gets his mail via Postfix -> deliver

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