<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi everyone: </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am seeing a whole LOT of these messages in my dovecot logfile:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>imap(rickt): Sep 12 17:14:03 Warning: Error in custom flags file /home/rickt/mail/.imap/TRASH/.customflags: Duplicated ID 0</DIV><DIV>imap(rickt): Sep 12 17:14:03 Warning: Error in custom flags file /home/rickt/mail/.imap/TRASH/.customflags: Duplicated ID 1</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>and also these:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>imap(mbwnews): Sep 12 17:10:16 Error: Corrupted index file /home/mbwnews/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: used_file_size larger than real file size (2016 vs 1608)</DIV><DIV>imap(mbwnews): Sep 12 17:10:18 Error: Corrupted index file /home/mbwnews/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: used_file_size larger than real file size (2016 vs 1608)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And not just referring to my inbox, other users as well. I hava bog standard install of 0.99.10.8, on an openbsd 3.6 box. every now and then i get an error from my or my users' IMAP email client saying that it couldn't access a particular inbox. a few clicks of "OK" or "Cancel" etc and the problem seems to go away.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>all kinds of errors (similar to above) in the imapd logfile though, seem to correspond with the timing of the abovementioned IMAP mail client errors. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>one thing: my users DO use procmail, so there is a chance that their IMAP client might have a mailbox open that procmail may be trying to append to. i wonder if this is a locking issue?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>i guess what i'm asking is - 2 thing:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1) how can i get these pesky imap client errors to go away so my users mailboxes can be successfully selected?</DIV><DIV>2) what do the indexing errors mean? are the 2 things related?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks so very much in advance everyone!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Rick.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#071EFF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; color: rgb(7, 30, 255); text-align: center; "><B style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; ; color: rgb(7, 30, 255); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; ">rick tait</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "> | </SPAN></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#071EFF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; color: rgb(7, 30, 255); text-align: center; "><B style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; ; color: rgb(7, 30, 255); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; ">e:</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; ; color: rgb(7, 30, 255); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><A href="mailto:rickt@rickt.org">rickt@rickt.org</A></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "> | </SPAN></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#071EFF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; color: rgb(7, 30, 255); text-align: center; "><B style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; ; color: rgb(7, 30, 255); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; ">t:</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(7, 30, 255); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; ; color: rgb(7, 30, 255); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; ">323.829.5703</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>