[Dovecot] Broken files?

[LuKreme]

On 25 Oct 2013, at 02:15 , Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

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> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, LuKreme wrote:
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>> Getting a lot of these error for two specific mailboxes. They repeat many times a day, usually within less than 5 minutes.
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>> mail dovecot: imap(kremels): Error: Broken file /home/kremels/Maildir/.zz.x-tech.2010/dovecot-uidlist line 2: Invalid extended fields: :
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>> $ cat .zz.x-tech.2010/dovecot-uidlist
>> 3 V1263241007 N56581 G11fe2118db236952f984010021d1a38d
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>> OI tried deleting the files that generated the errors, but they were recreated and the errors returned.
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> the error claims line 2, but the file has just one? Or is the second line present, but empty (just newline).

Hmm. I think it had just one line.

I *think* I figured it out, the mailboxes that were causing the errors each had a file in them named “:,2” since removing those and removing the dovecot-uidlist the problem hasn’t returned.


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