Thanks for the reply. I think I'd found the issue. It seems to be the empty line that is ending up at the top of mail file. I removed that blank line out of one of the mail box files, and it started working without an issue.

I'm not sure what is causing the empty line in the mbox file however. Most of my clients use pop3 to download their messages through dovecot. Could this be happening if the client only downloads part of their messages?

Pretty easy for me to straighten out, but I didn't know if this was a bug that needed to be addressed.

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-----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:52 AM To: Miles Mawyer Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LF not found where expected

On 27.6.2005, at 18:45, Miles Mawyer wrote:

 pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected

These usually happen because the mbox file has two adjacent From-line, ie:

From foo ... From bar ... Message-headers: ...

That shouldn't happen normally though. Sounds like something is wrong with how your mails are written. Are all the software that are writing to the mbox using same lock methods?

Anyway, 1.0-test/stable versions of Dovecot can handle the adjacent From-lines too without failing.