On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:12:50PM -0700, Paul Lathrop wrote:
Hello all,
First, the vital stats: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE, dovecot 1.0.rc7 from ports.
I have run into a vexing little problem that has brought my deployment of a shiny new dovecot server to a screeching halt. Using 'periodic' I've configured regular backups to occur using 'dump'. I have a monthly level 0, a weekly level 4, and a daily level 8. These dumps take advantage of snapshots to ensure they are taking a backup of a consistent filesystem. As part of the beta testing, I decided to delete my maildir and attempt to recover from the dumps.
Recovery went well, as dump/restore is a wonderful piece of software. I did a quick check at the file level to be sure my mailbox looked like it had when I took the last level 8 dump, and everything looked good. The problem came when I started up Thunderbird to take a look at my mail. When I selected a message, say one that said "knockout daily run output", I'd be reading a different message entirely, like a recent email from my boss! Most of the messages were like this - hopelessly scrambled! I tried just deleting the account in Thunderbird and connecting again, but that didn't change a thing.
Are the subject lines/body scrambled in any other clients? try mutt for instance.
Are the headers mixed up aswell?
What happened!? Dump has faithfully restored the files, including the dovecot indexes... so why are my messages scrambled?
Thanks for your help, Paul
Mark