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

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Wed Sep 13 01:59:43 EEST 2006


On September 13, 2006 8:39:07 AM +1000 Ian Mortimer <ian at physics.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 22:39 -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
>
>> hmm well I've had similar problems if the dovecot index got corrupted
>> somehow.  Try removing the index (the .imap directory in the same folder
>> as the bad mbox file) and see if that helps ...
>
> In all these cases (so far) the corrupt folder is the inbox in the
> mail spool.  The index file is in the user's home directory
> ~/mail/.imap/INBOX (which is mounted over NFS from the file server).

That sounds suspicious.  Are you sure that the clock on the NFS server
and on the mail frontend are in sync?

-frank


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