<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 27 Mar 2019, at 14.58, Timo Sirainen via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" class="">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">dovecot isn't able to auto fix the indexes and manual deletion is<br class="">required in all such cases<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">So if it keeps repeating, it's very strange. Could you send me such broken dovecot.index and dovecot.index.log files (without dovecot.index.cache)? They shouldn't contain anything sensitive (only message flags).</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Tested with the index files you sent. It gets fixed automatically in my tests.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The backtrace shows that after fsck it fails to write the fixed index to the disk, because <span style="orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;" class="">mail_index_write() fails for some reason. Except there's no error logged about it, which is rather weird. Do you still have the lmtp core? Could you do:</span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;" class="">fr 9</span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;" class="">p *log.index</span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>