Hi again, I am still trying to run Dovecot but persistently get the errors Corrupted transaction log file and Lost transaction log file. I cannot find any reference to this problem that will help, I have checked the file permissions and locks and cannot see any obvious cause. Could somebody please advise what I might be doing wrong or direct me to somewhere else that I can ask for or find help.

Below is some information about the problem.

The log file show the following when I attempt to log in:

Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up Info: imap(will): Effective uid=501, gid=501 Info: imap(will): mbox: data=/home/will/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/will Info: imap(will): mbox: root=/home/will/mail, index=/home/will/mail, inbox=/var/spool/mail/will Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.128.58, lip=10.0.128.55 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x40, offset=24, size=0) Error: imap(will): /home/will/mail/. imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will/mail/. imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2

My config file contains the following un commented lines:

protocols = imap ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } }

My file permissions are:

/var/spool/mail/ -rwxrwx--- will mail 2797 Dec 29 20:37 will

/home/will/mail
drwx------ will will 4096 Dec 29 20:47 .imap/ -rw------- will will 19 Dec 29 20:47 .subscriptions

/home/will/mail/.imap
drwx------ will will 4096 Dec 29 21:07 INBOX/

/home/will/mail/.imap/INBOX
-rwxrwxrwx will will 120 Dec 28 20:47 dovecot.index -rw------- will will 376 Dec 29 21:07 dovecot.index.log -rw------- will will 376 Dec 29 21:04 dovecot.index.log.2

The .imap and everything in it is created when I try to login, the three dovecot.index are all completely empty.

If any more information is required, please let me know.

Regards, Will

-- Will Ling