[Dovecot] Corrupted index & index data file

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jul 10, 2006, at 4:51 AM, james edwards wrote:

> We just moved to a new box for POP/IMAP services. I rsynced /home  
> and /var/spool/mail to the new box from the old with the archive  
> switch. It went smoothly but I am seeing more corrupted index &  
> index data file errors in the log than I normally do.

What Dovecot version? (don't bother with 0.99) What error messages  
exactly? Do you use NFS? (needs configuration changes)

> I thought I read that Dovecot would rebuild these files after the  
> user accessed them the second time, if corrupt. Is this correct ?  
> Is there a better way to deal with this issue other than deleting  
> them so they are recreated the next time the user checks their mail ?

It usually fixes all the errors automatically by itself.


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