[Dovecot] Error indexing mbox file (LF error)
Hello everyone,
I'm getting the error below for 2 different users on my system of 150+ users:
Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3-login: Login: cah [::ffff:172.16.3.107] Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/cah: LF not found where expected Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/cah: LF not found where expected Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-09-12 09:32:49]
I've read in the archives that it's the blank line at the beginning of the mbox file, and once deleted everything works fine.
The thing is, it keeps happening and I can't figure out why. Email clients that send mail to these accounts are the latest Outlook Express. As I said, I have 150+ users on the same system and they are fine.
I'm not sure if protocol makes a difference, but we are using POP3 only.
Any ideas what I can do to fix/prevent/correct this either programatically or with a patch of some sort?
Is this actively being worked on?
I'm running FC4 with dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4.
Any help is appreciated!
Kevin
Kevin Old kevinold@gmail.com
Hi!
I've just upgraded the Dovecot package in Gentoo Portage to 1.0alpha2 (it will take some time for the ebuild to get through to the package database and the Portage mirrors though).
http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-mail;name=dovecotPlease note that this version is still archmasked (~arch). If you want to give it a try, please do:
$ test -d /etc/portage || mkdir /etc/portage
$ echo '=net-mail/dovecot-1.0_alpha2 ~arch' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
# where "arch" is your architecture, e.g. "x86" or "ppc"
$ emerge -avt =net-mail/dovecot-1.0_alpha2Timo, can you please add a link to the above page to the Dovecot download page? Like:
<li>Gentoo: emerge <a href="URL">dovecot</a></li>Thanks!
Regards, Wolfram Schlich wschlich@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/
Argh, lazy me forgot to remove the In-Reply-To: header once again when actually wanting to start a *new* thread by replying to an existing message for convenience reasons *sigh*. Sorry :-)
Regards, Wolfram Schlich wschlich@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:39 -0400, Kevin Old wrote:
I'm getting the error below for 2 different users on my system of 150+ users:
Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3-login: Login: cah [::ffff:172.16.3.107] Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/cah: LF not found where expected
Added this page to wiki which answers it:
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Kevin Old
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Timo Sirainen
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Wolfram Schlich