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

[Cliff Hayes]

Yeah ... I looked at those (as I mentioned in my post).  I was talking about something more basic.

I think that mbox puts all mail in one file and maildir puts each individual mail in its own file in a separate directory for each user.  But the mail_location parameter is confusing to me.  Like when it was suggested that I add "mbox:/var/empty:" ... to me that's like saying "we don't use mbox ... so the mbox is the bit bucket" ... which is obviously not how it works.  To me "mbox:/var/spool/mail/u%" made more sense but was not recommended.  That's just one example.

Thanks though :)

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[mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net at dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Charles
Marcus
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:04 AM
To: Cliff Hayes
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Subject: Re: [Dovecot] FW: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from
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On 11/16/2009 8:19 PM, Cliff Hayes wrote:
> Ok, I did as you suggested.  It worked.  Wish I knew why.  Would you
> happen to have a link to a basic explanation of the mail_location
> parameter?  I looked in the wiki and I'm obviously missing some
> fundamental knowledge which the wiki builds on.

You mean these?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox

3 seconds with google...