dovecot.index.log in Maildir/cur

[George Sexton]

On 2/5/2015 12:56 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, George Sexton wrote:
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>> I'm seeing two bogus messages appearing my Maildir/cur directory. 
>> They're dovecot.index.log and dovecot-uidlist.
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>> -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
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>> 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).
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> does the files re-appear if you delete them?

Yes, but not immediately, and not every time. It "seems" like after you 
delete them an hour or so passes.

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>> I'm using the current version of Mozilla Thunderbird as my mail client.
>>
>> Mail is delivered to Maildir/ by procmail.
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> Do you call Dovecot LDA from procmail?

No.

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>> I was originally using Courier, but changed to dovecot. I did run the 
>> conversion program on all the mail boxes.
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> Maybe, they are left over from this process? Those two files belong 
> into ~/Maildir and not ~/Maildir/cur
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>> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
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The issue is they keep re-appearing. Other users have reported this as well.


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George Sexton
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