[Dovecot] Dovecot crashing

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 8, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:

> Dovecot is crashing on a certain user inbox which is in mbox format as
> well as one of the users other mbox files. The crash doesn't exactly
> match what is listed in the aforementioned wiki page, so I thought  
> their
> might be some other insight into this process or how to fix it.
>
> Here is the error in the log files:
> Aug  8 09:26:07 localhost dovecot: IMAP(user): UIDVALIDITY changed
> (1216167307 -> 1218134720) in mbox file /var/mail/user

Why did it change? Does it change often? It should never change. The  
MboxProblems wiki page shows the possible reasons for this.

> Aug  8 09:26:07 localhost dovecot: Panic: IMAP(user): file index- 
> sync.c:
> line 39 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed:
> (seq_range_exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid))

This is a bug caused by the UIDVALIDITY change. I think it happens  
only once though and after the next login it works? Anyway I should  
try to get this fixed.

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