[Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format - Couldn't open INBOX
Rich West
Rich.West at wesmo.com
Thu Apr 14 17:03:14 EEST 2005
While I saw another thread on the list similar to the issue I was
experiencing
(http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-February/006168.html), I was
wondering if there was a way around this problem (the thread simply
suggested upgrading, but are the later version (specifically the
1.0-test releases) ready for prime time?)...
We're periodically having this with some users (not sure what client
they are using, but I am pretty sure it is MS Outlook) where the inbox
is in near perfect shape except for some extra characters at the
beginning of the file. POP or IMAP delivery fails with an error stating
"File isn't in mbox format - Couldn't open INBOX". It looks like those
characters are of a previous message that was not completely removed
from the file, and those characters seem to throw everything out of wack..
It's easily correctable by removing the bogus characters from the
beginning of the file, but that gets annoying quickly..
-Rich
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