[Dovecot] Index and Thunderbird

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:12 +0200, Jon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Whitbox Linux 3 (RHEL)
> Dovecot 1.0.rc29
> Using NFS
> 
>  From time to time does all mail get re-downloaded to Thunderbird. I 
> would believe this has something to do with an index problem. I upgraded 
> to 1.0 a few months ago but that didn't work well so I installed version 
> 1.0.rc29 which worked better but we still get this problem from time to 
> time. DOes anyone know if it is a good idea to install 1.03 or perhaps 
> 1.1alpha?
> 
> dovecot: Sep 01 04:47:30 Error: IMAP(XXXXXX): 
> rename(/mail2/home/XXXXXX/.Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist.lock, 
> /mail2/home/XXXXXX/.Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist) failed: No such file i
> dovecot: Sep 01 04:47:30 Error: IMAP(XXXXXX): 
> file_dotlock_replace(/mail2/home/XXXXXX/.Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist) 
> failed: No such file or directory

Maybe this will help:
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-December/018145.html

Or are you using multiple Dovecot servers accessing the same user's
mailboxes? v1.0 doesn't handle that all that great either, which could
cause these kind of problems. With v1.1 you can set mail_nfs_storage=yes
to fix this.
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