[Dovecot] Rebuilding indexes fails on inconsistent mdbox

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 10/24/2012 6:28 AM, Milan Holzäpfel wrote:

> I have a problem with an incosistent mdbox: 
...
> four hours after the problem initially appeared, I did a hard reset of
> the system because it was unresponsive.
...
> Can anybody say something about this? May the mdbox be repaired? 

If the box is truly unresponsive, i.e. hard locked, then the corrupted
indexes are only a symptom of the underlying problem, which is unrelated
to Dovecot, UNLESS, the lack of responsiveness was due to massive disk
access, which will occur when rebuilding indexes on a 6.6GB mailbox.
You need to know the difference so we have accurate information to
troubleshoot with.

If the there's a kernel or hardware problem, you should see related
errors in dmesg.  Please share those.

Neither Timo nor anyone here can fix your index problem if the cause lie
elsewhere.  You must fix the root problem first.

-- 
Stan