[Dovecot] mbox sync failure2

[Alnis Morics]

On Monday 06 July 2009 14:19:00 Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 7/6/2009 6:06 AM, Alnis Morics wrote:
> >> There have been a LOT of mbox fixes since 1.0.15, so I'd recommend going
> >> ahead and moving to 1.2, which just went stable, but at least go to
> >> 1.1.16...
> >
> > Thanx for advice.
> > But shame to me -- after all the hassle, it turned out that the harddisk
> > had a bad sector exatcly in the mbox file, and I didn't see it because I
> > was doing all the things I wrote above, remotely. Fortunately, I managed
> > to clone the hd with dd_rhelp. Now it's up and running again.
>
> I'd still upgrade if I were you... again, LOTS of mbox (and other) fixes
> (improvements) since 1.0.15...

Sure. But, as concerns mbox, I already thought of migrating to Maildir. In 
this situation, I would just had lost one or a couple of mail messages 
instead of rendering the whole mailbox unreadable.