On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 16:24 +1000, Jeff Turner wrote:
Hi,
Just today, Thunderbird started throwing errors when accessing a particular mail folder. Looking in the logs showed this:
dovecot: Aug 09 15:36:31 Error: IMAP(nmenere): Corrupted index file /imap/mailboxes/nmenere/shared-settings/jira-support/index/.INBOX.Triaged/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (51 > 39)
So how many files are there really?
In fact, the problem seems to be with the files in cur/. There are 51 in total, and 39 of them have an 'i' flag:
1155084961.P27685Q5.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbrk 1155084979.P27685Q6.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbtk 1155085103.P27685Q10.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbwk 1155085175.P28321Q1.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbcki 1155085221.P27685Q12.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbwk 1155085228.P28321Q4.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbki 1155085231.P28321Q5.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbki 1155085246.P28321Q6.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbki
All the lowercase a-z flags are Dovecot's keywords, which are listed in dovecot-keywords file (1=a, 2=b, etc.). If the file doesn't exist or the flag isn't listed in there, it's given a unknown-<number> name.
Anyway, I tried to reproduce this problem but couldn't. Could you give me a list of all the files in the maildir that is broken? Does it break even if there are no dovecot* files at all? What if you do:
rm ~/Maildir/.folder/dovecot* MAIL=~/Maidir /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap x select folder
Does it print the same error message after select command?