[Dovecot] FW: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index

[Cliff Hayes]

Would it be better to just drop the mbox part?  Like this:

mail_location = INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u

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Sirainen
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:04 PM
To: Cliff Hayes
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Subject: Re: [Dovecot] FW: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from
index


On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 17:05 -0600, Cliff Hayes wrote:
> Nevermind.  I figured it out.  I left off the INDEX command.  Sorry to spam
> the mail list :(
> 
> Here is my mail_location for future reference / searches:
> 
> mail_location =
> mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u

You shouldn't use /var/spool/mail as the mail root anyway. I suppose
you're using only POP3, but if you ever happen to (even accidentally)
enable IMAP access the above configuration may give access to other
users' mails (although I suppose the filesystem permissions will prevent
that if you're using system users).

In any case, I'd suggest something like:

mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u