[Dovecot] Corrupt mbox folders after migration from uw-imap

[Magnus Stenman]

I have seen the same thing.

dovecot 0.99, CentOS 4, squirrelmail (not verified that it affects 
squirrel only users)

I usually just delete the extra line in vi.


have since switched to dovecot 1.0, so far so good....



Ian Mortimer wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 10:37 -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
> 
>> Use formail (part of procmail) to extract the messages as individual
>> files (mh style).  Then it's trivial to either check, recompute, or
>> just remove the Content-length headers.  Make sure you only do this
>> for the "main" message, not any Content-Length text in the body or
>> any attachments.  Then recombine each message into an mbox file.
> 
> Thanks.  With formail and procmail I was able to do what you suggest.
> It found a few anomalies which I now have to investigate.
> 
> However it seems that's not the problem.  An inbox which passed the
> "Content-Length:" test is getting corrupted every time the top (oldest)
> message is deleted.  Either not all of the message gets deleted leaving
> some lines at the top of the file before the first From line or else
> part of the next message (usually just the From and a few other chars)
> gets deleted.
> 
> Even weirder: if I fix the corrupted file, it immediately becomes 
> corrupted again if the new top message is deleted.  Any other messages
> can be deleted but not the top one.
> 
> The client was using squirrelmail.
> 
> Anybody seen anything like this?
> 
>