dovecot.index.log in Maildir/cur

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, George Sexton wrote:
> 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.
>>> 
>>> -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?
>
> Yes, but not immediately, and not every time. It "seems" like after you 
> delete them an hour or so passes.
>
>> 
>>> 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?
>
> No.

Could you delete those files and immediatly send a message to that user 
and check, if the files re-appear?

>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>
> The issue is they keep re-appearing. Other users have reported this as well.

what's the output of

doveadm user -u user

of an user which those files?

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Steffen Kaiser
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