[Dovecot] mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox...

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mar 7, 2006, at 2:12 AM, Simon Bowden wrote:

> Mar  7 10:02:35 imapserver dovecot: imap(user1): mbox sync: UID  
> inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/user1/mail/mail/INBOX.Trash  
> (8 > 2, seq=2,idx_msgs=6)

Locking problem I think.

> I had thought that the indexing stuff would not *give up*, but  
> would reindex a directory if there was a problem

It does, even in this case. I think this error wouldn't actually even  
be visible to users in other ways than mails are being expunged and  
added with new UIDs.

> /home/user is nfs-mounted.
...
> Here's the config file, stripped of comments and blank lines:

I don't see lock_method in there. The default is flock nowadays, and  
that won't work with NFS.


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