My dovecot server seems to randomly begin giving errors to pop3 users
who try to fetch their email. Once this begins, they see no more new
mail, though the mail is in cur.
Running: dovecot-stable 20050501, Mac OS X 10.3.9
Log entries like this:
May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: pop3-login: Login: kim [24.22.16.169]
May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): rename(/Users/kim/Maildir/
dovecot-uidlist.lock, /Users/kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed:
Input/output error
May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): file_dotlock_replace(/Users/
kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error
Is this a known problem, and/or is there a known way to recover from
such a situation? I'm managed to throw out the uidlist, but that
means they get a whole dump of new mail.
-jdb