[Dovecot] Bug-report for rc28: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file

28 Mar 2007


      Hi,
When I try to open the attached mbox file I get the following warning in
Thunderbird 1.5.0.10:
'The current command failed. The e-mail server responded: Mailbox isn't
a valid mbox file'.
I also tried this with squirrelmail, with the same result.
The Dovecot version is dovecot-1.0.rc28, compiled from source. The
attached mbox was correctly read from, and written to in earlier
versions (either rc15 or rc22, I am not sure).
The initial import was done (a long time ago) by copying a file from my
Thunderbird profile directory.
OS: SuSE 10.0, x86
Filesystem: ext3, (no NFS)
Output of dovecot -n:
# /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
Can I somehow recover the data in this mbox?
Regards,
Erik.
--
Erik van Oosten
http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/

[Dovecot] Bug-report for rc28: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file

Erik van Oosten

Output of dovecot -n:

# /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd