[Dovecot] Cannot Access Inbox

[robertober]

On May 27, 2010, at 11:14 AM, robertober <robertober at mac.com> wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>
> Yesterday while messing around with procmail for SpamAssassin I had my IMAP client open and it lost it's ability to see my Inbox except for two messages. I tried another IMAP client and no success. I can see all other directories such as sent and the ones I have made. The mbox file is there and catable/grepable. I even made a new one. I can read a test account Inbox from the same server with my usual client. Also my small number of other users appear to be using pop3 as normal.
>
> Tried so far:
> * Multiple clients including pop3.
> * Removed spamd and procmail stuff.
> * Various permissions.
> * New mbox.
> * Restart everything, although I am not sure I rebooted the server last night.
> * Searched for lock files that may need to be deleted.
> * Googled
>
> Server setup:
> * Mandriva Linux 2009.1
> * Dovecot 1.1.13
> * Postfix 2.5.6


Hello Again,

I finally decided to specify the mbox paths in the dovecot.conf and all is ok now.  Not sure why I had to do that since it has been working for years through upgrades as it was.

Robert A. Ober