dovecot - Nov 2004 - big troubel - damaged mailboxfolders

Hi,

because the fedora project switcht from wu imap to dovecot, i followed 
this step. Today I'm very unhappy about this step, because there are 
more problems for me than advantages...

But today the biggest problem is, that a lot!!! of mailboxes are 
damaged. within three year no mailbox was damaged using wu imap.

The errormessage is:

imap(cstrang): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/cstrang

the server is fedora core 1, dovecot-0.99.11.

May be I have something misconfigured, but where to look at?

Any ideas, what causes the damage?

And installing the test-version isnt an alternativ for my production 
server vor 500 users.

Regards

G?tz Reinicke
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IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet

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On Friday 26 Nov 2004 11:16 am, G?tz Reinicke wrote:
> 
> Any ideas, what causes the damage?
Is it the same as...

http://www.dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-September/004531.html
> And installing the test-version isnt an alternativ for my production
> server vor 500 users.
If the above, you may want to use maildir if you really want to stick with 
dovecot 0.99 I suspect?

Timo may know if there is a fix applied.

But there really isn't some sort of magic that makes released software
better
than development, other than testing (or Timo) makes it so.