I'm having a problem with the dovecot server. I've upgraded to 1.0rc7 to no avail. My naive view is that a cache file is corrupt, or a lock file cannot be unset. Certain mailboxes cannot be accessed to read or write. Checking the process, the server looks stuck in an infinite poll/wait loop. telnetting directly to the server shows that things are definately amiss, though the original problem may have been caused by a faulty client (Apple Mail or Outlook).

My question at this point is how to unwedge the server. Is there a cache repair utility, or a list of files which shouldn't exist? I don't see this info on the Wiki.

After sortinig this out, I'm going to install mysql, since this seems to be the more-tested installation. Will dovecot automatically rebuild my current databases or do i need to prepare for sql by hand?

-SM-