[Dovecot] Fatal: Can't finish POP3 UIDL command

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 15 18:15:40 EEST 2013


On 15.5.2013, at 18.03, stevenfah <steven at fah-designs.co.uk> wrote:

> Error: Message ordering changed unexpectedly (msg #1: storage seq 140 -> 1)
> Fatal: Can't finish POP3 UIDL command

That's a bug.

> I used the Perl script given here to convert the mailboxes.
> 
> The only fix we've found is the rename/delete the Dovecot-uidlist file for
> the affected mailboxes and we've done that, as it was only a few. The issue
> now is that more mailboxes are coming with the same error, even though they
> were fine originally.

Could you send me one of the broken dovecot-uidlist files so I can reproduce this?

Also, you didn't mention what Dovecot version you're using. If it's an old one it might have been fixed already.



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