Mailbox suddenly inaccessible

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Tue Feb 14 11:44:58 UTC 2017



On 14.02.2017 13:44, Sven Strickroth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> out of the sudden I've an inaccessible folder with Dovecot 2.2.27
> (c0f36b0) from Debian Jessy backports.
>
> $ doveadm mailbox list -u mail at example.com
> INBOX/Erledigt
> INBOX/Erledigt/Erledigt
> INBOX/Versicherung gesendet
> Sent
> INBOX
>
> However, it is not accessible any more, my IMAP client tells me:
> "STATUS: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/Erledigt"
>
> Also:
> $ doveadm search -u mail at example.com mailbox INBOX/Erledigt
> doveadm(mail at example.com): Error: Couldn't get mailbox 'INBOX/Erledigt'
> GUID: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/Erledigt
>
> Other mailboxes (especially INBOX/Erledigt/Erledigt) are accessible:
> $ doveadm search -u mail at example.com mailbox INBOX/Erledigt/Erledigt
> 60af0f1964d68d574a480000f94cf17a 346
> 60af0f1964d68d574a480000f94cf17a 367
> ...
>
> $ doveadm -f table mailbox status -u mail at example.com  "messages vsize"
> "INBOX*"
> mailbox                     messages vsize
> INBOX/Erledigt2             15       25868676
> INBOX/Erledigt/Erledigt     4344     6107238270
> INBOX                       24       36081472
>
> I'm using mdbox and see no errors in syslog from dovecot.
>
> Any ideas on what's going on and how I can recover the mails in that folder?
>
Hi!

Is the Erledigt2 folder somehow related to this?

Aki


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