dovecot - Sep 2005 - LF not found and other errors

Hi 
I have installed dovecot 0.99.14-r1 + postfix 2.1.5-r2 in a gentoo OS

Looking into the mail.err log I see the following errors:

Sep  6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Error indexing mbox file
/var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected 
Sep  6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Error indexing mbox file
/var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected 
Sep  6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error
occured. Refer to server log for more information. [20 05-09-06 12:26:23] 
Sep  6 12:55:44 mail imap(u0185): Error indexing mbox file
/var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected 
Sep  6 12:55:44 mail last message repeated 7 times 
Sep  6 12:58:42 mail imap(u0266): Corrupted index data file
/home/u0266/.imap/Inviati/.imap.index.data: Data position of rec ord 281
points outside file (62664 + 32 > 58096) 
Sep  6 12:58:42 mail imap(u0266): Corrupted index data file
/home/u0266/.imap/Inviati/.imap.index.data: Missing location fie ld for
record 281 
Sep  6 13:24:19 mail last message repeated 14 times 
Sep  6 13:24:20 mail last message repeated 3 times 
Sep  6 13:47:10 mail imap(u0043): Error indexing mbox file
/home/u0043/INBOX.Trash: LF not found where expected

These errors seem to be related both to imap and pop3 but I don't know how
to solve the probelm.

I searched for these errors on the web and maillists and about the "LF not
found", it seems a problem related to dovecot versions older than
v0.99.10.5, but my version is 0.99.14-r1.

Any ideas?

Regards
Sergio


 
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On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:33 +0200, Sergio Storari wrote:
> Hi 
> I have installed dovecot 0.99.14-r1 + postfix 2.1.5-r2 in a gentoo OS
> 
> Looking into the mail.err log I see the following errors:
> 
> Sep  6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Error indexing mbox file
> /var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected 
This means that the mbox file has extra successive From-lines, eg.:

From someone
From another

without anything between them. 0.99.x Dovecot can't handle them. Either
remove them by hand, or use 1.0alpha which doesn't have that problem.
Those extra From-lines however shouldn't be there and they can cause
problems in any case.

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