[Dovecot] Mailbox is in inconsistent state

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Nov 27 05:02:08 EET 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 15:54 -0700, Dion Hollenbeck wrote:
> At 11:50 AM 11/26/2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >On 26.11.2007, at 18.50, Dion Hollenbeck wrote:
> >
> >>>lip=::ffff:192.168.1.101
> >>>Nov 26 10:26:47 parrot dovecot: POP3(hollen): UIDVALIDITY changed
> >>>(1196019076 -> 1196097977) in mbox file /var/mail/hollen
> >
> >I think there's a problem with mailbox autodetection. If /var/mail/ 
> >hollen file ever gets deleted, Dovecot fallbacks to using ~/mail/ 
> >inbox. Set explicitly:
> >
> >mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> >
> >That hopefully fixes this.
> 
> That did not fix it.  Thanks anyway.

Oh, now I notice you mentioned you use Pine to access the mailbox
directly. That explains the error, since it uses the same headers as
Dovecot. But I don't know why Pine would change the UIDVALIDITY, since
it should be compatible with how Dovecot uses it..

One solution at least would be to make Pine access the mailbox via IMAP
instead of doing it directly.

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