I am using dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4 on my system and decided to check the logs
since I just took over as the administrator on this system and I noticed the
same error entry over and over in the logs. I went to /var/log/dovecot.err
and see:
imap(rangry): May 22 13:33:31 Error: Error parsing IMAP envelope: "Thu, 20
Apr 2006 10:10:01 -0400" "Re: Hi there I have a question"
(("Rodney Angry"
NIL "rodney.s.angry" "example.com")) (("Rodney
Angry" NIL "rodney.s.angry" "
example.com")) ((NIL NIL "rodney.s.angry"
"example.com")) (("Gryder, Connie"
NIL "CONSTANCE.L.GRYDER" "example.com")) NIL NIL "<
DD3761B99DC88F4284EDE00D608383C65DF16C at
0088-its-exmp01.us.example.com>" NIL
I don't understand what this error message means and why its flooding my
logs. I do know the that the name in parenthesis on line one is a user on my
email server. <rangry> is a user on my domain with a valid email account
but
I can't tell if the problem is coming from example.com or originating from
<rangry>.
Anyone happen to know what is causing this? I don't know if you guys need my
config here so I don't want to flood this message. If this makes sense to
anyone, please let me know what I can do to resolve this or keep this from
flooding my email server.
Thanks!
On 5/23/2008, Carlos Williams (carloswill at gmail.com) wrote:> I am using dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4One word... upgrade. This is ancient. atrpms.net Just be *sure* that you read the upgrade docs very carefully, as tnings changed in the config... http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.0 and if you decide to go straight to 1.1 (not a bad idea since it is at rc5 and release is imminent): http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.1 -- Best regards, Charles
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:36 -0400, Carlos Williams wrote:> imap(rangry): May 22 13:33:31 Error: Error parsing IMAP envelope: "Thu, 20 > Apr 2006 10:10:01 -0400" "Re: Hi there I have a question" (("Rodney Angry" > NIL "rodney.s.angry" "example.com")) (("Rodney Angry" NIL "rodney.s.angry" " > example.com")) ((NIL NIL "rodney.s.angry" "example.com")) (("Gryder, Connie" > NIL "CONSTANCE.L.GRYDER" "example.com")) NIL NIL "< > DD3761B99DC88F4284EDE00D608383C65DF16C at 0088-its-exmp01.us.example.com>" NIL > > I don't understand what this error message means and why its flooding my > logs. I do know the that the name in parenthesis on line one is a user on my > email server. <rangry> is a user on my domain with a valid email account but > I can't tell if the problem is coming from example.com or originating from > <rangry>.You could delete .imap.index.cache (or whatever the .cache file was called in 0.99, i can't remember) to get it rebuilt. That probably fixes this. But as others said, upgrading would be a good idea. -------------- 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/20080524/b26754df/attachment-0002.bin>