dovecot.index.log in Maildir/cur

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, George Sexton wrote:

> I'm seeing two bogus messages appearing my Maildir/cur directory. They're 
> dovecot.index.log and dovecot-uidlist.
>
> -rw------- 1 gsexton users  51 Feb  4 09:04 Maildir/cur/dovecot-uidlist:2,S
> -rw------- 1 gsexton users 244 Feb  4 09:04 Maildir/cur/dovecot.index.log

> These files are only appearing in the Maildir/cur directory, and not in any 
> other directory that mail is delivered to (e.g. mail list directories).

does the files re-appear if you delete them?

> I'm using the current version of Mozilla Thunderbird as my mail client.
>
> Mail is delivered to Maildir/ by procmail.

Do you call Dovecot LDA from procmail?

> I was originally using Courier, but changed to dovecot. I did run the 
> conversion program on all the mail boxes.

Maybe, they are left over from this process? Those two files belong into 
~/Maildir and not ~/Maildir/cur

> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

> userdb {
>  driver = passwd
> }

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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