Hi there, We have our mail boxes stored on a NFS server and we use maildir for mailbox storage. Some days ago we had a crush and SOME of the mailboxes get an error on QUERY: "EXPUNGE". eg: telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Cabanova Mail ready. A01 LOGIN "hoeschen@***.com" "***" A01 OK Logged in. A01 STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT) * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 6 RECENT 5 UNSEEN 5) A01 OK Status completed. a01 SELECT "INBOX" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 6 EXISTS * 5 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1143550926] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 40] Predicted next UID a01 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. a01 EXPUNGE * BYE Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin. Connection closed by foreign host. The issue i think it is related to the dovecot dovecot.* files located in the user home. After i delete thoes it works again ! Any clue how this can be solved by not manually deleting the dovecot.* files (index files) ? Thank you for your time ! -- Catalin Constantin Bounce Software http://www.bounce-software.com http://www.cabanova.ro