[Dovecot] Don't Understand Error Entry
I am using dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4 on my system and decided to check the logs since I just took over as the administrator on this system and I noticed the same error entry over and over in the logs. I went to /var/log/dovecot.err and see:
imap(rangry): May 22 13:33:31 Error: Error parsing IMAP envelope: "Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:10:01 -0400" "Re: Hi there I have a question" (("Rodney Angry" NIL "rodney.s.angry" "example.com")) (("Rodney Angry" NIL "rodney.s.angry" " example.com")) ((NIL NIL "rodney.s.angry" "example.com")) (("Gryder, Connie" NIL "CONSTANCE.L.GRYDER" "example.com")) NIL NIL "< DD3761B99DC88F4284EDE00D608383C65DF16C@0088-its-exmp01.us.example.com>" NIL
I don't understand what this error message means and why its flooding my logs. I do know the that the name in parenthesis on line one is a user on my email server. <rangry> is a user on my domain with a valid email account but I can't tell if the problem is coming from example.com or originating from <rangry>.
Anyone happen to know what is causing this? I don't know if you guys need my config here so I don't want to flood this message. If this makes sense to anyone, please let me know what I can do to resolve this or keep this from flooding my email server.
Thanks!
On 5/23/2008, Carlos Williams (carloswill@gmail.com) wrote:
I am using dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4
One word... upgrade. This is ancient.
atrpms.net
Just be *sure* that you read the upgrade docs very carefully, as tnings changed in the config...
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.0
and if you decide to go straight to 1.1 (not a bad idea since it is at rc5 and release is imminent):
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.1
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Best regards,
Charles
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Charles Marcus CMarcus@media-brokers.com wrote:
One word... upgrade. This is ancient.
atrpms.net
Just be *sure* that you read the upgrade docs very carefully, as tnings changed in the config...
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.0
and if you decide to go straight to 1.1 (not a bad idea since it is at rc5 and release is imminent):
Thanks for the upgrade suggestion but I would like to think the error is due to something besides my version just being old. Does the error make sense and are you saying that if I had the latest version, this would not happen?
Man your battle stations...
on 5-23-2008 2:21 PM Carlos Williams spake the following:
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Charles Marcus CMarcus@media-brokers.com wrote:
One word... upgrade. This is ancient.
atrpms.net
Just be *sure* that you read the upgrade docs very carefully, as tnings changed in the config...
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.0
and if you decide to go straight to 1.1 (not a bad idea since it is at rc5 and release is imminent):
Thanks for the upgrade suggestion but I would like to think the error is due to something besides my version just being old. Does the error make sense and are you saying that if I had the latest version, this would not happen? What he is saying is that the old versions aren't supported anymore. You will find little help on them as any one on this list who can help you knows not to use such ancient software in production.
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
On 5/23/2008 5:21 PM, Carlos Williams wrote:
Thanks for the upgrade suggestion but I would like to think the error is due to something besides my version just being old. Does the error make sense and are you saying that if I had the latest version, this would not happen?
I'm saying 0.99 series is ANCIENT - AND there were some very real bugs that were never fixed... time to update.
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Best regards,
Charles
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:36 -0400, Carlos Williams wrote:
imap(rangry): May 22 13:33:31 Error: Error parsing IMAP envelope: "Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:10:01 -0400" "Re: Hi there I have a question" (("Rodney Angry" NIL "rodney.s.angry" "example.com")) (("Rodney Angry" NIL "rodney.s.angry" " example.com")) ((NIL NIL "rodney.s.angry" "example.com")) (("Gryder, Connie" NIL "CONSTANCE.L.GRYDER" "example.com")) NIL NIL "< DD3761B99DC88F4284EDE00D608383C65DF16C@0088-its-exmp01.us.example.com>" NIL
I don't understand what this error message means and why its flooding my logs. I do know the that the name in parenthesis on line one is a user on my email server. <rangry> is a user on my domain with a valid email account but I can't tell if the problem is coming from example.com or originating from <rangry>.
You could delete .imap.index.cache (or whatever the .cache file was called in 0.99, i can't remember) to get it rebuilt. That probably fixes this. But as others said, upgrading would be a good idea.
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Carlos Williams
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Charles Marcus
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Scott Silva
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