[Dovecot] Problem managing mbox

[Ken A]

I have seen this error msg too. Deleting the index files 'fixes' the 
error messages in the log. The indexes seem to get corrupted sometimes, 
when the client is logged doing: copy dest=Trash, delete, expunge

Ken


On 3/19/2012 9:00 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 20:42 +0100, PSTM wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem with dovecot. seems that do not erase mail that mail
>> client request to be erased.
>
> Are you sure the clients have actually issued the EXPUNGE command,
> rather than simply marked the mail with \Deleted flag?
>
>> And I have this errors:
>>>   Error: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file
>> Info:
>
> mbox code isn't perfect, but if this doesn't happen often it shouldn't
> matter much. doveconf -n output might have been helpful in giving more
> suggestions.
>
>
>

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