Apologies if this is an <=rc19 thing, but am waiting for rc24 to come into Debian unstable/testing before upgrading.

After purging ~10 messages from INBOX the index's appeared to go into a broken state. Mail client (Outlook express) reported "unable to read message flags". Logged messages:

Feb 23 17:34:58 mailget01 dovecot: IMAP(drawkcab@drawkcab.com): file mail-index-view.c: line 386 (_view_lookup_ui d_range): assertion failed: (*last_seq_r >= *first_seq_r) Feb 23 17:34:58 mailget01 dovecot: IMAP(drawkcab@drawkcab.com): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80b46eb] -> imap [0x80b413 9] -> imap [0x809c6c8] -> imap(mail_index_lookup_uid_range+0x2b) [0x809cd5b] -> imap(index_storage_get_uids+0x36) [0x8086936] -> imap(mailbox_get_uids+0x2b) [0x80a674b] -> imap [0x805f9b8] -> imap(imap_search_get_arg+0x76) [0x 8060786] -> imap(cmd_fetch+0xa5) [0x8057ed5] -> imap(cmd_uid+0x52) [0x805ad02] -> imap [0x805b8c5] -> imap [0x805 b83b] -> imap(_client_input+0x6d) [0x805b9ad] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x118) [0x80baa88] -> imap(io_loop_run+ 0x28) [0x80b9f08] -> imap(main+0x69) [0x8063e89] -> /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0xb7e53974] -> im ap [0x8056731] Feb 23 17:34:59 mailget01 dovecot: child 24629 (imap) killed with signal 6

Feb 23 17:35:10 mailget01 dovecot: IMAP(drawkcab@drawkcab.com): file mail-index-view.c: line 386 (_view_lookup_ui d_range): assertion failed: (*last_seq_r >= *first_seq_r) Feb 23 17:35:10 mailget01 dovecot: IMAP(drawkcab@drawkcab.com): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80b46eb] -> imap [0x80b413 9] -> imap [0x809c6c8] -> imap(mail_index_lookup_uid_range+0x2b) [0x809cd5b] -> imap(index_storage_get_uids+0x36) [0x8086936] -> imap(mailbox_get_uids+0x2b) [0x80a674b] -> imap [0x805f9b8] -> imap(imap_search_get_arg+0x76) [0x 8060786] -> imap(cmd_fetch+0xa5) [0x8057ed5] -> imap(cmd_uid+0x52) [0x805ad02] -> imap [0x805b8c5] -> imap [0x805 b83b] -> imap(_client_input+0x6d) [0x805b9ad] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x118) [0x80baa88] -> imap(io_loop_run+ 0x28) [0x80b9f08] -> imap(main+0x69) [0x8063e89] -> /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0xb7e88974] -> im ap [0x8056731] Feb 23 17:35:10 mailget01 dovecot: child 24662 (imap) killed with signal 6

rm /userdirectory/dovecot* resolved it.

If its worth investigating the dovecot* files copied to: http://www.drawkcab.com/dumpyard/dovecot-files.tar

Regards

Dean Manners