On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 22:39 -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
hmm well I've had similar problems if the dovecot index got corrupted somehow. Try removing the index (the .imap directory in the same folder as the bad mbox file) and see if that helps ...
In all these cases (so far) the corrupt folder is the inbox in the mail spool. The index file is in the user's home directory ~/mail/.imap/INBOX (which is mounted over NFS from the file server).
Removing that doesn't fix this problem. However I have found the problem with this particular INBOX at least. There are some messages with corrupt or missing From lines near the top of the folder. Deleting those fixes this inbox.
What I'm concerned about is: are we going to see more of these?
if not, someone who actually knows something about dovecot will have to chime in.
That's what I was hoping for!
-- Ian