On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 11:08 +0100, Claudio Prono wrote:
Today i have manually copied at least 250 mail from a mailbox to another and i have encountered some problems with dovecot. When finished to download all the messages, via pop3, at the next check mail dovecot give me that error:
Since POP3 supports only downloading mails, I guess this copying operation was the same as if you simply had downloaded the mails.
dovecot: Jan 15 10:59:55 Info: POP3(michele@domain.net): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/29, size=932800
Do you see another error message? This isn't actually error (see the Info: line there). The error message should be written either before that line, or perhaps in another log file entirely. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging
Then, the messages from the pop server was deleted,
Probably the messages were deleted by the previous download? This error message doesn't cause messages to be deleted.
I have resolved that deleting all the dovecot files into the mailbox, so:
dovecot-uidlist dovecot.index dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log
Deleting only the dovecot.index* files would probably have been enough.
Then, all restarted to works normally, but...the most bad thing is... the lost mails!
You mean that all the 250 mails weren't copied, or they were all copied but also deleted?