On Jul 27, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
- Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>:
Is it possible that the entire virus-al mailbox gets deleted and recreated (while the mailbox is open)?
No. There may be processes that delete files/mails from the Maildir,
though.Do you have any "UIDVALIDITY changed" lines in logs?
# zfgrep -h virus-al /var/log/OLD/2009-07-*/pop3d-imapd.log |grep
UIDVALIDITY Jul 2 02:27:19 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Maildir /home/v/i/ virus-al/Maildir: UIDVALIDITY changed (1246493487 -> 1246494049) Jul 2 22:25:34 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Maildir /home/v/i/ virus-al/Maildir: UIDVALIDITY changed (1246564263 -> 1246566306) Jul 18 21:30:00 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Maildir /home/v/i/ virus-al/Maildir: UIDVALIDITY changed (1247941041 -> 1247944777) That's all for last month
OK, that definitely means something's either deleting dovecot-uidlist
files or changing that mailbox's index files in some way, which then
causes the UIDVALIDITY changed errors and/or next_uid changed errors.
Neither should really be happening.. I can always try to get those
crashes fixed, but I think the underlying problem is some external
script or something.