[Dovecot] FreeBSD 5.4/Dovecot 1.0.b3: lots of error messages
Martin Jangowski
martin at jangowski.de
Mon Mar 27 10:51:34 EEST 2006
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 10:22 +0100, Martin Jangowski wrote:
>> dovecot: Mar 21 10:03:41 Error: pop3(xxx): mbox sync: UID
>> inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/xxx (37326 > 35874, seq=1,
>> idx_msgs=26)
>
> These mean that X-UID header in the mbox file don't match what Dovecot
> was expecting to see based on its indexes. This shouldn't be happening
> unless the mboxes keep changing in very unexpected ways, for example if
> the mails are rearranged inside the file or if eg. older version of the
> mbox is restored from backups, or something similar.
>
> Is anything else than Dovecot touching those mbox files?
No, but I have several users using the same mailboxes concurrently.
I fixed the problem (at least I'v got no more error messages):
- move away from "virtual" users (give each its own UID and homedir)
- mmap_disable = yes
- lock_method = dotlock
- default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Grüße aus Hohenlohe,
Martin Jangowski
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