[Dovecot] Losing messages

[Reuben Farrelly]

By chance are those missing messages in one of the tmp/ directories in the users 
Maildir?

I moved some mail yesterday and a few ended up in there for no obvious reason....

Reuben


On 15/03/2006 8:32 a.m., Stian Jordet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been running dovecot cvs happily for.. well.. very, very long
> now. Don't remember when I switched from 0.99, but it was back in the
> test-days, long before the alpha's. Anyway, it seems to have been
> working very well all the time. But recently three of my clients have
> claimed to have lost mail when moving from Thunderbird. I even
> experienced it myself once. I'm using Evolution 99% of the time, and
> have never seen any problems with that - but that doesn't mean the
> problem only occurs with Thunderbird. When moving mail from one folder
> to another, everything seems fine, except that the mail isn't in any
> folder anymore. It _seems_ related to this:
> 
> Mar 14 14:46:53 buick dovecot: imap(larsmj): Fixed index file /home/larsmj/Maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 40 -> 36
> Mar 14 14:46:53 buick dovecot: imap(larsmj): Corrupted index file /home/larsmj/Maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index: Duplicate header extension keywords
> 
> But I'm not sure. Either way I get these lines rather often for some
> users. What does it mean? Anyone seen anything like it? I really don't
> like the idea of losing clients mail... I hope someone can shed some
> light on this.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stian
>