[Dovecot] Err. msg. while copy.: "Invalid internal data."

Bazy bazy at darkdawn.net
Wed Aug 29 03:35:55 EEST 2007


Dominik Springer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> While copying 9360 messages from a local folder to a folder on the imap
> server
> at message 5792 the client shows the following message from server:
> "Invalid internal data."
> 
> The error is reproducible.
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Configuration:
> Versio: 1.0.rc15 (Debian Package)
> OS: Debian etch (in XEN VM)
> Kernel: 2.6.18-4-xen-686 (Debian Package)
> FS: ext3
> Mail-Client: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 on Mac OS X 10.4.10
> 
> 
> 
> Br, thx
> Dominik Springer

Hi Dominik,

Do you use maildir or mbox? I had this problem when mail was stored in a
single mbox file. Try changing to maildir.


Paste from wiki:

Typically with Maildir it would be set to:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

or with mbox:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u


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