When something "bad" happens to the indexes, my e-mail client (Thunderbird) reports an "unable to succeed" error on opening a mailbox. Leaving that mailbox and coming back works fine. Is this expected behaviour? -- Daniel
To be more specific: Alert The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [timestamp] -- Daniel
on 12/31/2007 10:54 AM Daniel L. Miller spake the following:> When something "bad" happens to the indexes, my e-mail client > (Thunderbird) reports an "unable to succeed" error on opening a > mailbox. Leaving that mailbox and coming back works fine. Is this > expected behaviour? >You need to at least include which version of dovecot you are using, as there are some very old versions in use on some linux distros. It could be thunderbird timing out as the indexes get rebuilt. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
Scott Silva wrote:> on 12/31/2007 10:54 AM Daniel L. Miller spake the following: >> When something "bad" happens to the indexes, my e-mail client >> (Thunderbird) reports an "unable to succeed" error on opening a >> mailbox. Leaving that mailbox and coming back works fine. Is this >> expected behaviour? >> > You need to at least include which version of dovecot you are using, > as there are some very old versions in use on some linux distros. > It could be thunderbird timing out as the indexes get rebuilt. >Ubuntu, Dovecot 1.0.5 -- Daniel
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 10:54 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:> When something "bad" happens to the indexes, my e-mail client > (Thunderbird) reports an "unable to succeed" error on opening a > mailbox. Leaving that mailbox and coming back works fine. Is this > expected behaviour?It's expected, but it's not expected that anything bad happens to your indexes normally. What do the logs show as the reason? -------------- 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/20080101/5c44f907/attachment-0002.bin>
Timo Sirainen wrote:> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 10:54 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > >> When something "bad" happens to the indexes, my e-mail client >> (Thunderbird) reports an "unable to succeed" error on opening a >> mailbox. Leaving that mailbox and coming back works fine. Is this >> expected behaviour? >> > > It's expected, but it's not expected that anything bad happens to your > indexes normally. What do the logs show as the reason? > >I see a variety, but a sample: Dec 31 11:09:26 bubba dovecot: IMAP(mgillespie at amfes.com): Corrupted transaction log file /var/mail/amfes.com/mgillespie/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: start_offset (20200) > file size (20184) Dec 31 11:09:30 bubba dovecot: IMAP(mgillespie at amfes.com): Transaction log file /var/mail/amfes.com/mgillespie/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Dec 31 11:09:34 bubba dovecot: IMAP(mgillespie at amfes.com): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /var/mail/amfes.com/mgillespie/.Trash/dovecot.index -- Daniel