Re: [Dovecot] FW: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 17:05 -0600, Cliff Hayes wrote:

Nevermind. I figured it out. I left off the INDEX command. Sorry to spam the mail list :(

Here is my mail_location for future reference / searches:

mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u

You shouldn't use /var/spool/mail as the mail root anyway. I suppose you're using only POP3, but if you ever happen to (even accidentally) enable IMAP access the above configuration may give access to other users' mails (although I suppose the filesystem permissions will prevent that if you're using system users).

In any case, I'd suggest something like:

mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u