Can anyone help me with this issue? The CEO of our company keeps getting IMAP time out errors and "mailbox is in an inconsistent state" messages. He uses Outlook 2003. There are errors on the server side. This is what it says: "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't hi gher than existing (2 <= 504)" Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered Dovecot before. Thank You! Patrick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20060620/ce6319b0/attachment.html
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:07 -0700, Patrick Carney wrote:> ?Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree > file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted > isn't higher than existing (2 <= 504)?> Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take > over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered > Dovecot before.You're using 0.99.x Dovecot and there's not much point anymore in trying to figure out why it's broken. I'd suggest upgrading to 1.0beta versions as the first step. If it still breaks after that I can help debug it further. Also see http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20060620/41a9c562/attachment-0001.pgp
So how do I delete his indexes? Is there somewhere a step by step procedure? Timo, please help? Forgive me, I am new to all this. Thanks much, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Graves [mailto:jeff@image-src.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:34 AM To: 'Patrick Carney' Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state I haven't used 0.99 in a while but it shouldn't destroy the subscriptions. I think the next login may be delayed some while the index is rebuilt. Might want to check with Timo. -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Carney [mailto:patrick@castandcrew.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:23 PM To: 'Jeff Graves'; dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state Will that destroy his folder subscriptions? Will I loose anything? Thanks PAtrick -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Graves Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:18 AM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state The only quick and easy band-aid I can think of is to delete the indexes and let dovecot recreate them. -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Carney Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:44 PM To: 'Timo Sirainen' Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state Yes. I was afraid of that. But the weird thing is it only happens with One particular user. And at that, it wasn't doing it for the longest time. It just started recently. Is there a band-aid for this. I ask because we are not in a place to upgrade at the moment. Thanks Patrick -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:37 AM To: Patrick Carney Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:07 -0700, Patrick Carney wrote:> "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree > file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted > isn't higher than existing (2 <= 504)"> Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take > over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered > Dovecot before.You're using 0.99.x Dovecot and there's not much point anymore in trying to figure out why it's broken. I'd suggest upgrading to 1.0beta versions as the first step. If it still breaks after that I can help debug it further. Also see http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot
Greetings, Please forgive me if this has already been answered. But it would appear that the UID that is attempting to access the mailbox in question is LOWER than the MINIMUM UID allowed in your dovecot.conf file. Hope this helps you fix it. Quoting Patrick Carney <patrick@castandcrew.com>:> Can anyone help me with this issue? > > > > The CEO of our company keeps getting IMAP time out errors and "mailbox is in > an inconsistent state" messages. He uses Outlook 2003. > > > > There are errors on the server side. This is what it says: > > > > "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree file > /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't hi > > gher than existing (2 <= 504)" > > > > Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take over for > a departed sys admin and have never used or administered Dovecot before. > > > > Thank You! > > Patrick > >-- Shameless self-promotion follows... ... or does it? ----------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p12 (SMP - 900x2) Tue Mar 7 19:37:23 PST 2006 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: PGP Digital Signature Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20060621/fd8c3a7d/attachment.pgp
Yes. I looked into that. But our conf. file has this: # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 first_valid_uid = 100 #last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 Patrick -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Chris H. Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5:50 PM To: dovecot at dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state Greetings, Please forgive me if this has already been answered. But it would appear that the UID that is attempting to access the mailbox in question is LOWER than the MINIMUM UID allowed in your dovecot.conf file. Hope this helps you fix it. Quoting Patrick Carney <patrick at castandcrew.com>:> Can anyone help me with this issue? > > > > The CEO of our company keeps getting IMAP time out errors and "mailbox isin> an inconsistent state" messages. He uses Outlook 2003. > > > > There are errors on the server side. This is what it says: > > > > "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree file > /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't hi > > gher than existing (2 <= 504)" > > > > Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take overfor> a departed sys admin and have never used or administered Dovecot before. > > > > Thank You! > > Patrick > >-- Shameless self-promotion follows... ... or does it? ----------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p12 (SMP - 900x2) Tue Mar 7 19:37:23 PST 2006 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////