Hi, I'm having trouble as of about noon today. I noticed I wasn't getting any new messages in Thunderbird. I restarted it and still nothing. I looked at the log, and found nothing from dovecot for a long time (since perhaps noon today). I restarted dovecot, but still it didn't get me new mail. I finally removed dovecot.* in my Maildir folder and restarted dovecot. I'm using 1.0alpha4. Now I'm still not able to get the new mail, and I get the following messages: Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<frohro>, method=plain, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Effective uid=501, gid=20 Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: data=/Users/frohro/Maildir Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: root=/Users/frohro/Maildir, index=/Users/frohro/Maildir, control=, inboxNov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Nov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Nov 20 20:50:08 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<frohro>, method=plain, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Effective uid=501, gid=20 Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: data=/Users/frohro/Maildir Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: root=/Users/frohro/Maildir, index=/Users/frohro/Maildir, control=, inboxNov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) Nov 20 20:50:26 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) I guess I won't be able to read any answers to this in my mailbox, but I should be able to read the archive on the web. Please help! Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla College 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: frohro.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 318 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20051120/67092220/attachment.vcf>
Hi Everyone, I found that I could "fix" the problem by moving all my messages from Maildir/cur/ to a temporary location and then try and load the inbox using Thunderbird which then saw no messages, and then moving them all back into Maildir/cur/ and then Thunderbird loaded them fine. I have had this funny business with messages_count to large happen twice tonight now. Both times after I deleted dovecot* in the Maildir/ folder. Hope this helps someone else if they end up with the same issue, or perhaps it might help Timo figure out what is happening. Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla College 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: frohro.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 318 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20051121/905ed577/attachment.vcf>
A further update to this. It keeps happening even without deleting the dovecot* files. Rob Rob Frohne wrote:> Hi, > > I'm having trouble as of about noon today. I noticed I wasn't getting > any new messages in Thunderbird. I restarted it and still nothing. I > looked at the log, and found nothing from dovecot for a long time > (since perhaps noon today). I restarted dovecot, but still it didn't > get me new mail. I finally removed dovecot.* in my Maildir folder and > restarted dovecot. I'm using 1.0alpha4. Now I'm still not able to > get the new mail, and I get the following messages: > > Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: > user=<frohro>, method=plain, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 > Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Effective > uid=501, gid=20 > Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: > data=/Users/frohro/Maildir > Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: > root=/Users/frohro/Maildir, index=/Users/frohro/Maildir, control=, inbox> Nov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index > file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large > (2578 > 2566) > Nov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index > file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large > (2578 > 2566) > Nov 20 20:50:08 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index > file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large > (2588 > 2576) > Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: > user=<frohro>, method=plain, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 > Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Effective > uid=501, gid=20 > Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: > data=/Users/frohro/Maildir > Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: > root=/Users/frohro/Maildir, index=/Users/frohro/Maildir, control=, inbox> Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index > file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large > (2588 > 2576) > Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index > file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large > (2588 > 2576) > Nov 20 20:50:26 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index > file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large > (2588 > 2576) > > I guess I won't be able to read any answers to this in my mailbox, but > I should be able to read the archive on the web. Please help! > > Thanks, > > Rob >-- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla College 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: frohro.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 318 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20051121/2e1b0968/attachment.vcf>
Timo Sirainen
2005-Dec-06 13:02 UTC
[Dovecot] messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Help!
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 20:57 -0800, Rob Frohne wrote:> Nov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index > file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2578 > > 2566)Hmh. So this is with OSX 10.4 and the mails are stored in local disk? This just somehow looks like a NFS or locking problem.. Or maybe it has something to do with Dovecot not working that well with OSX. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20051206/1e2258c5/attachment.bin>
Timo Sirainen wrote:> On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 20:57 -0800, Rob Frohne wrote: > >>Nov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index >>file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2578 >> > 2566) > > > Hmh. So this is with OSX 10.4 and the mails are stored in local disk? > This just somehow looks like a NFS or locking problem.. Or maybe it has > something to do with Dovecot not working that well with OSX. >FWIW I've run the counter in excess of 24K on Linux