[Dovecot] Corrupted Mail?

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 27.05.2014 16:04, schrieb Arthur Dent:
> On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 15:44 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>> Am 27.05.2014 14:56, schrieb Arthur Dent:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I have a Dovecot v2.2.12 installation running on a Fedora 20 box which
>>> is the mailserver for my family. This means that it is serving only 4
>>> accounts.
>>>
>>> I use fetchmail->procmail to feed Dovecot and I read my mail on clients
>>> such as Evolution on (another) Fedora 20 machine, iPad/iPhone or
>>> squirrelmail on the web (running on the same Fedora 20 server).
>>>
>>> The average mail throughput for the whole family is around a couple of
>>> hundred messages per day, but each (and every) day I get between 3 and
>>> 10 of the following messages:  
>>>
>>> dovecot: imap(mark): Error: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox
>>> file /home/mark/mail/MLists/Fail2Ban at 3407473: 1 Time(s)
>>>
>>> I have googled, but with little success. What I have found seemed to
>>> suggest that removing the .index files and allowing Dovecot to rebuild
>>> them will solve this. I did:
>>> find /home -type f -name "dovecot.index.*" -exec rm -f {} \;
>>> but it has made no difference.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me solve this please?
>>
>> at this small setup simply use maildir as format
>> and use getmail to fetch, sieve may do sorting
>>
>> see
>> https://sys4.de/de/blog/2013/04/12/abholdienst-fur-mail/
>>
>> sorry german but setup should speak for its own
>>
>> getmail does also deliver into maildir directly ( without dovecot deliver )
>> if you dont need to sort through sieve
> 
> Well thanks - but I have been using an mbox setup for about 10 years. It
> is only since I upgraded to F20 that I have been experiencing this
> problem. I may look at switching to maildir for the future, but for now
> that's too big a job...
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
> 

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxProblems




Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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