On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:55:51PM -0500, Michael Baird wrote:

Frank, exactly the same thing happened to me. Last week I tried to migrate over to dovecot, from courier-imap for all the reasons you mentioned, I ran into the Corrupted index file issue and had to cut back to courier-imap. I am using dovecot for maildir as it appears you are, however I specified an outside directory for index files (/var/indexes). I have a few thousand people using my webmail/imap system so this issue quickly became a big issue after the cutover.

Regards Michale Baird

It was probably my own fault. Timo Sirainen noticed Edgardo Pezoa was using MH style filenames. And I did the same thing. My main inbox configured in procmail was $HOME/Maildir/new and it should be $HOME/Maildir/ (notice the slash at the end). Now, new mails have filenames such as 1107960126.14681_2.hive:2, instead of msg.uC:2,S. I never had this problem with courier so I didn't thought it could be a configuration error.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Timo's mail: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-February/006215.html

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