Ok, I did as you suggested. It worked. Wish I knew why. Would you happen to have a link to a basic explanation of the mail_location parameter? I looked in the wiki and I'm obviously missing some fundamental knowledge which the wiki builds on.
Thanks :)
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net@dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 6:04 PM To: Cliff Hayes Cc: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] FW: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index
Well, that just wouldn't work. And I don't think I really even want to make it work.
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 16:44 -0600, Cliff Hayes wrote:
Would it be better to just drop the mbox part? Like this:
mail_location = INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net@dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:04 PM To: Cliff Hayes Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: 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