[Dovecot] child 9436 (pop3) killed with signal 11

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sunday, Sep 14, 2003, at 20:10 Europe/Helsinki, Gunter Ohrner wrote:

> I thought dovecot would delete damaged index files

It should rebuild them automatically. I guess there are some situations 
when it fails to do that.

>  but I get this always when
> checking mail for the first time, cheking mail for the second time 
> tells me:
>
> Sep 14 18:18:43 UnseenUniversity pop3-login: Login: gunter [127.0.0.1]
> Sep 14 18:18:43 UnseenUniversity pop3(gunter): Corrupted binary tree 
> file /
> home/gunter/Mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: Invalid used_file_size 
> in
> header (0)
>
> but actually fetches the mail after that.
> So what can/should I do? Simply delete the offending index file?

Yes, see if it helps.