[Dovecot] Corrupted Mail?

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 27.05.2014 14:56, schrieb Arthur Dent:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have a Dovecot v2.2.12 installation running on a Fedora 20 box which
> is the mailserver for my family. This means that it is serving only 4
> accounts.
> 
> I use fetchmail->procmail to feed Dovecot and I read my mail on clients
> such as Evolution on (another) Fedora 20 machine, iPad/iPhone or
> squirrelmail on the web (running on the same Fedora 20 server).
> 
> The average mail throughput for the whole family is around a couple of
> hundred messages per day, but each (and every) day I get between 3 and
> 10 of the following messages:  
> 
> dovecot: imap(mark): Error: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox
> file /home/mark/mail/MLists/Fail2Ban at 3407473: 1 Time(s)
> 
> I have googled, but with little success. What I have found seemed to
> suggest that removing the .index files and allowing Dovecot to rebuild
> them will solve this. I did:
> find /home -type f -name "dovecot.index.*" -exec rm -f {} \;
> but it has made no difference.
> 
> Can anyone help me solve this please?

at this small setup simply use maildir as format
and use getmail to fetch, sieve may do sorting

see
https://sys4.de/de/blog/2013/04/12/abholdienst-fur-mail/

sorry german but setup should speak for its own

getmail does also deliver into maildir directly ( without dovecot deliver )
if you dont need to sort through sieve



> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Mark
> 



Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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