[Dovecot] IMP reading entire mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Chris O'Regan wrote:

>> Corrupted index cache file /local/data/dovecot/indexes/mail/X/ 
>> XXXXXXXX/.imap/delivery.log/dovecot.index.cache: Broken MIME parts  
>> for mail UID 30880
>
> DUH! Please ignore the Corrupted index cache file; the "mailbox" in
> question is a file named delivery.log (i.e. procmail log file) that is
> in the user's ~/mail directory. Of course there will be problems  
> trying
> to index this file, it is not an mbox! *sigh*

Hmm. It still seems like there's something Dovecot should do better  
here. I'll see what I can do about it with my procmail log file :)

> Okay, I think this rules out an indexing problem. But the main problem
> persists, why has IMP all of a sudden begun reading the entire  
> contents
> of this user's mailbox each time it connects, and why has the started
> since upgrading to Dovecot?

I've no idea without rawlogs.