[Dovecot] assertion failed

Shaun T. Erickson sterickson at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 00:54:16 UTC 2007


On 1/3/07, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 31.12.2006, at 2.04, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>
> > Dec 30 16:03:33 max dovecot: IMAP(ste): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line
> > 499 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed:
> > (rstream->mail_size != (uoff_t)-1)
>
> It doesn't like the mbox file for some reason.
>
> Could you put the mbox file through http://dovecot.org/tools/mbox-
> anonymize.pl and send the anonymized mbox, dovecot.index and
> dovecot.index.log files to me? This would help me getting it properly
> fixed.
>
> After that you could try if deleting dovecot.index* files would make
> it work again.

I would be happy to - thanks. One question however: there are many
mbox files - the inbox istelf, in /var/mail and my other folder mbox
files, in my home directory. How can I tell which is the offending
one, that I need to send to you?
-- 
        -ste


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