dovecot - May 2005 - Error in rename uidlist while fetching through pop3

My dovecot server seems to randomly begin giving errors to pop3 users  
who try to fetch their email. Once this begins, they see no more new  
mail, though the mail is in cur.

Running: dovecot-stable 20050501, Mac OS X 10.3.9

Log entries like this:

May  2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: pop3-login: Login: kim [24.22.16.169]
May  2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): rename(/Users/kim/Maildir/ 
dovecot-uidlist.lock, /Users/kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed:  
Input/output error
May  2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): file_dotlock_replace(/Users/ 
kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error


Is this a known problem, and/or is there a known way to recover from  
such a situation? I'm managed to throw out the uidlist, but that  
means they get a whole dump of new mail.

-jdb

Those were the errors I was getting when my server's hdd corrupted and
locked into readonly mode.  It basically means dovecot can't read the
file.

Regards
Andrew


On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 19:55 -0700, James Berry wrote:
> My dovecot server seems to randomly begin giving errors to pop3 users  
> who try to fetch their email. Once this begins, they see no more new  
> mail, though the mail is in cur.
> 
> Running: dovecot-stable 20050501, Mac OS X 10.3.9
> 
> Log entries like this:
> 
> May  2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: pop3-login: Login: kim [24.22.16.169]
> May  2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): rename(/Users/kim/Maildir/ 
> dovecot-uidlist.lock, /Users/kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed:  
> Input/output error
> May  2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): file_dotlock_replace(/Users/ 
> kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error
> 
> 
> Is this a known problem, and/or is there a known way to recover from  
> such a situation? I'm managed to throw out the uidlist, but that  
> means they get a whole dump of new mail.
> 
> -jdb
> 
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