dovecot - Mar 2007 - Bug-report for rc28: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file

Hi,

When I try to open the attached mbox file I get the following warning in 
Thunderbird 1.5.0.10:
'The current command failed. The e-mail server responded: Mailbox isn't 
a valid mbox file'.
I also tried this with squirrelmail, with the same result.

The Dovecot version is dovecot-1.0.rc28, compiled from source. The 
attached mbox was correctly read from, and written to in earlier 
versions (either rc15 or rc22, I am not sure).
The initial import was done (a long time ago) by copying a file from my 
Thunderbird profile directory.

OS: SuSE 10.0, x86
Filesystem: ext3, (no NFS)

Output of dovecot -n:
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# /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
-------------------------------------

Can I somehow recover the data in this mbox?

Regards,
     Erik.

-- 
Erik van Oosten
http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/


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On 28.3.2007, at 23.47, Erik van Oosten wrote:
> When I try to open the attached mbox file I get the following  
> warning in Thunderbird 1.5.0.10:
> 'The current command failed. The e-mail server responded: Mailbox  
> isn't a valid mbox file'.
You have an extra empty line at the beginning of the file. Remove it  
and it should work. Dovecot 0.99.x used to have problems with mboxes  
and it left these extra linefeeds. It shoudn't be a problem anymore  
with 1.0rcs.


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