[Dovecot] Maildir and Invalid data in file

Patryk patryk.rzadzinski at ostc-pl.com
Wed Jun 25 11:08:36 EEST 2008


Hi Timo,

Regarding our conversation in IRC, I'm attaching the uidlist and copying in the original 
message just in case.


I'm using dovecot version 1.0.13 on reiserfs on hardware RAID-0, but I'm getting the
following error in the logs every time one user tries to access his old mails in the .Sent
directory:

dovecot: 2008-06-23 15:09:46 Error: IMAP(marek.chajecki): Invalid data in file
/var/mail/Maildir/marek.chajecki/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist

As a result he fails to get access to the emails in this folder.

I've googled a bit and read that deleting the uidlist makes dovecot recreate it, but after
some time the same thing happens. It's a new hard drive, so I don't think this is a hard
drive fault.

Some additional info: this server is being used by about 200 users who get about 100
emails daily each one of them.

Config:

root at warsaw Maildir # dovecot -n
# 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
ssl_listen: *
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_process_per_connection: no
login_processes_count: 15
login_max_processes_count: 512
max_mail_processes: 4096
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/Maildir/%u
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes
auth default:
   worker_max_count: 100
   passdb:
     driver: pam
     args: cache_key=%u dovecot
   userdb:
     driver: passwd

Any help will be appreciated!

-- 
Regards,
Patryk Rzadzinski


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