[Dovecot] Rebuilding indexes fails on inconsistent mdbox

Milan Holzäpfel listen at mjh.name
Fri Oct 26 21:28:51 EEST 2012


On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:43:19 +0200
Robert Schetterer <rs at sys4.de> wrote:

> Am 24.10.2012 13:28, schrieb Milan Holzäpfel:
> > The whole mdbox is 6.6 GiB large and I guess that it contains about
> > 300k-600k messages. It's an archive of public mailing lists, so I could
> > give access to the files. 
> > 
> > Can anybody say something about this? May the mdbox be repaired? 
> 
> perhaps this helps
> 
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/ForceResync
> 
> however upgrading to dovecot latest might be a good idea

I tried this command, but all it will do is the "rebuilding indexes"
thing that Dovecot's deliver and imapd will also do. (As I mentioned,
this fails.) I haven't tried a more recent version of Dovecot so far. 

Regards,
Milan Holzäpfel



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