On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 02:35, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
If I rename dovecot-uidlist out of the way, it successfully builds a new one and no longer complains, and is happy on repeated invocations. If I put back the dovecot-uidlist, it is not happy again.
However- the same is true of the .imap* files. If I move them out of the way (and leave the old dovecot-uidlist in place), the new pop3 is happy to build a new set and use them (again, on repeated invocations). If I move back the old .imap* files, the error is back.
So- moving either of those helps.
OK, I think the problem is then just that Dovecot crashes before it has time to rebuild index file. And it's broken because previous -test releases broke it.
The older pop3 also seems happy to use the newly generated files. (but again it's also happy with the old ones).
That's because older versions didn't use the uidlist file at all.
I don't know what happens if new mail comes in after the new files are generated.
Probably works.