[Dovecot] Log sybnch error

[Stephen Davies]

Sorry. I wasn't clear.
The message did repeat for the same mailbox.

eg
Mar  5 09:41:40 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=42304 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/Trash/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size
Mar  5 09:41:44 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=42392 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/Trash/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size
Mar  5 09:42:58 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=42480 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/Trash/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size
Mar  5 09:42:58 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=11864 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/Drafts/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size
Mar  5 09:42:58 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=11864 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/Templates/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size
Mar  5 09:42:58 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=12964 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/Sent/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size
Mar  5 09:42:58 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=42568 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/Trash/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size
Mar  5 09:42:58 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=11864 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/Junk/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size
Mar  5 09:42:58 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=11864 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/Outbox/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size
Mar  5 09:42:58 server dovecot: imap(scldad): Error: Log synchronization error 
at seq=2,offset=60240 for /home/scldad/Mail/Mail/.imap/storage1/dovecot.index: 
Extension header update points outside header size


I have deleted the .imap directories and the message seems to have 
disappeared.

Cheers and thanks,
Stephen

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 11:05:18 PM Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 3.3.2012, at 1.45, Stephen Davies wrote:
> > No NFS. The file system is local.
> > 
> > Yes. There are multiple copies of the message for multiple mailboxes for
> > each of at least two users.
> 
> But does the error keep repeating for the same mailbox? It's supposed to
> fix itself automatically after logging the error once.
> 
> > Yes. Did recently upgrade from 1.2.15.
> 
> I think in earlier versions mbox used somewhat different index file
> structures and now Dovecot logs some errors about them.
> 
> Anyway, one sure way to fix this is to just delete all the .imap/
> directories.

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