On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 14:48 +0100, Charlie Root wrote:
Hi,
I often see this message: Feb 1 14:42:44 vlk dovecot: POP3(obec@nizkov.cz): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Feb 1 14:42:44 vlk dovecot: POP3(obec@nizkov.cz): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/obec@nizkov.cz (68386 > 68346, seq=2, idx_msgs=3)
this is on FreeBSD@i386 runnin 1.0.r19 (but I have seen this with all versions of 1.0.x), filesystem in use is UFS (ie. local filesystem). THe mailing client in question seems to be outlook express. I can provide the mbox in question.
If you can reproduce this, I'd like to know how. If this happens every time with that mbox, that would be enough. In that case I'd like to have the mbox and its index files.
If this happens only randomly, then.. well, it has been caused by different things in the past, and debugging it is annoyingly difficult. I could try to make some debugging patches I guess.
I think usually the cause has been either a sequence of some headers that Dovecot didn't like, or some external mbox modification which broke things. Actually in the latter case this is not necessarily even a bug.