[Dovecot] Troubleshooting help
Somehow, hopefully to be determined, I got my Thunderbird/dovecot Fedora Core 3 configuration into a real snit, such that I can no longer access my INBOX.
When Thunderbird tries to get the INBOX content (or get new mail) it reports "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid messageset: -2147483648:*." Scouring logs and googling has come up empty. Now I'm flailing at trying to get to a state that this problem does not exist. I'd like to understand how this situation arose and how to deal with it better if it happens to any other users on my mail server.
Thanks,
-pmr
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 15:03 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
Somehow, hopefully to be determined, I got my Thunderbird/dovecot Fedora Core 3 configuration into a real snit, such that I can no longer access my INBOX.
When Thunderbird tries to get the INBOX content (or get new mail) it reports "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid messageset: -2147483648:*." Scouring logs and googling has come up empty. Now I'm flailing at trying to get to a state that this problem does not exist. I'd like to understand how this situation arose and how to deal with it better if it happens to any other users on my mail server.
mbox or maildir? Probably mbox? Sounds like you received an email with a very high X-UID header which broke things. Probably easiest way to fix it would be to delete Dovecot's index files (.imap.index*) and remove all X-UID headers from your INBOX file:
grep -v '^X-UID: ' inbox > inbox2
Dovecot 0.99.14 version doesn't allow this to happen anymore. I guess you were using older version?
Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> writes:
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Dovecot 0.99.14 version doesn't allow this to happen anymore. I guess you were using older version?
This raises question for me. I am running 0.99.11, and would like to upgrade to a newer version with the latest fixes. I cannot (easily) discern from the Dovecot web site which version I should upgrade to in order to retain compatibility (I use maildir + LDAP, FYI).
My understanding is that 1.0-test introduces some changes that will require "migration." Can I safely upgrade to 0.99.14 and preserve my current production mail spool? 1.0-test?
Thanks, /taso
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 21:58 -0600, Taso N. Devetzis wrote:
Dovecot 0.99.14 version doesn't allow this to happen anymore. I guess you were using older version?
This raises question for me. I am running 0.99.11, and would like to upgrade to a newer version with the latest fixes. I cannot (easily) discern from the Dovecot web site which version I should upgrade to in order to retain compatibility (I use maildir + LDAP, FYI).
My understanding is that 1.0-test introduces some changes that will require "migration." Can I safely upgrade to 0.99.14 and preserve my current production mail spool? 1.0-test?
Upgrading from 0.99.x to newer 0.99.x is safe. 1.0-tests are still going through changes.
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Paul Michael Reilly
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Taso N. Devetzis
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Timo Sirainen