[Dovecot] How to recover a mail box from an assertion failure

Michael Durket durket at highwire.stanford.edu
Tue Feb 8 21:14:48 EET 2011


I'm running Dovecot version 1.2.11 and getting this assertion error on a user's mail:

Panic: file /home/durket/dovecot-1.2.11/src/lib-index/mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 290 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || max_file_seq != view->head->hdr.file_seq || max_file_offset != (uoff_t)-1 || min_file_offset <= view->head->sync_offset)

I realize that there are newer releases of Dovecot (that even may fix this bug) but what I need to know is if there's anything I can do 
(like having Dovecot recreate indexes or whatnot) that will recover the user's mail (short of having to reconstruct it from backups).




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