dovecot - Feb 2005 - Corrupted index file

I've recently switched from Courier-imap to dovecot and I'm impressed
with it's speed and reliability. However, my index file gets regularly
corrupted:

Feb  8 21:23:16 hive imap(hart): Corrupted index file
/home/hart/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: index.next_uid (129) >
uid_rec.uid (128)

dovecot version: 0.99.13-3 Debian sid)

I use dovecot in combination with mutt, procmail and postfix.

If I rename the last received mail I can use my inbox folder again
(until the next time the index gets corrupted).

Debian bug# 294284

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Frank:

Please, see my previous message at 
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-February/006186.html.

We have almost same problem: both using Postfix, Dovecot and Procmail in 
different OS and with different MUA. For me, the key is Dovecot+Procmail.

My temporal solution is to send myself an e-mail and try to get e-mails 
again (some times do it twice). All pending e-mails arrives after that.

The question is: someone have a real fix?

Best regards,
Edgardo

"Frank Hart" escribi? el 09-02-2005 15:13:
> I've recently switched from Courier-imap to dovecot and I'm
impressed
> with it's speed and reliability. However, my index file gets regularly
> corrupted:
> 
> Feb  8 21:23:16 hive imap(hart): Corrupted index file
> /home/hart/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: index.next_uid (129) >
> uid_rec.uid (128)
> 
> dovecot version: 0.99.13-3 Debian sid)
> 
> I use dovecot in combination with mutt, procmail and postfix.
> 
> If I rename the last received mail I can use my inbox folder again
> (until the next time the index gets corrupted).
> 
> Debian bug# 294284
> 
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Hello guys,

--On 9. helmikuuta 2005 15:25 -0300 Edgardo Pezoa <epezoa at safp.cl> 
wrote:
> We have almost same problem: both using Postfix, Dovecot and Procmail
> in different OS and with different MUA. For me, the key is
> Dovecot+Procmail.
I
I've seen this too on OpenBSD 3.6-current. I' running Postfix w/ 
Dovecot. My users uses Mulberry, Mutt, Pine, Thunderbird, Outlook, 
Outlook Express, The Bat! as their MUA.
> The question is: someone have a real fix?
I'd love to hear about this too :-)

Thanks, Tero

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On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:55:51PM -0500, Michael Baird
wrote:
> Frank, exactly the same thing happened to me. Last week I tried to
> migrate over to dovecot, from courier-imap for all the reasons you
> mentioned, I ran into the Corrupted index file issue and had to cut back
> to courier-imap. I am using dovecot for maildir as it appears you are,
> however I specified an outside directory for index files (/var/indexes).
> I have a few thousand people using my webmail/imap system so this issue
> quickly became a big issue after the cutover.
> 
> Regards
> Michale Baird
It was probably my own fault. Timo Sirainen noticed Edgardo Pezoa was
using MH style filenames. And I did the same thing. My main inbox
configured in procmail was $HOME/Maildir/new and it should be
$HOME/Maildir/ (notice the slash at the end). Now, new mails have
filenames such as  1107960126.14681_2.hive:2, instead of msg.uC:2,S. I
never had this problem with courier so I didn't thought it could be a
configuration error.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Timo's mail:
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-February/006215.html

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