Those were the errors I was getting when my server's hdd corrupted and locked into readonly mode. It basically means dovecot can't read the file.

Regards Andrew

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 19:55 -0700, James Berry wrote:

My dovecot server seems to randomly begin giving errors to pop3 users
who try to fetch their email. Once this begins, they see no more new
mail, though the mail is in cur.

Running: dovecot-stable 20050501, Mac OS X 10.3.9

Log entries like this:

May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: pop3-login: Login: kim [24.22.16.169] May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): rename(/Users/kim/Maildir/ dovecot-uidlist.lock, /Users/kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed:
Input/output error May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): file_dotlock_replace(/Users/ kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error

Is this a known problem, and/or is there a known way to recover from
such a situation? I'm managed to throw out the uidlist, but that
means they get a whole dump of new mail.

-jdb

-- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) Linux Guru - Netserve Consultants Ltd. - www.domaincity.co.uk Admin - North Wales Linux User Group - www.nwlug.org.uk BOFH excuse 171: NOTICE: alloc: /dev/null: filesystem full