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On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Cliff Hayes wrote:
> I have a sendmail/dovecot imap/pop3 system that has been running with the
> following mail_location:
>
> mail_location =
> mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u
>
> In order to reduce errors and simplify operation I removed imap and am now
> only responding to pop3. I'd like to also simplify the mail_location
to get
> rid of index errors since I don't need indexes:
>
> mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%n
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation#Index_files
see :INDEX=MEMORY.
> Nov 6 23:17:24 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Warning: UIDVALIDITY
changed
> (1132434125 -> 1205169149) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/chayes
UIDVALIDITY is kept in index files by default, because you've the changed
index files, the UIDVALIDITY changed.
>
> Nov 6 23:17:26 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Panic: Message unexpectedly
> expunged from index
>
> Nov 6 23:17:26 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Error: Raw backtrace:
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0() [0x3340045e2a] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0() [0x3340045e6e] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x3340019eb3] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0() [0x3ef62567ed] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0() [0x3ef6256e75] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0() [0x3ef62928ed] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_set_seq+0x76)
> [0x3ef6294ae6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0()
[0x3ef625698c]
> -> dovecot/pop3() [0x405ec7] ->
dovecot/pop3(client_command_execute+0x6d7)
> [0x4071c7] -> dovecot/pop3(client_handle_input+0x78) [0x405618] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x3340052c36]
->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xa7) [0x3340053a57]
> -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x3340052778]
->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x334003e3c3]
->
> dovecot/pop3(main+0x283) [0x403cc3] ->
> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x359f821a05] ->
dovecot/pop3()
> [0x403e2d]
> Nov 6 23:17:26 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Fatal: master:
service(pop3):
> child 3358 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled)
That's a bug.
> Nov 6 23:18:00 sendmail dovecot: pop3(jbkirk): Error:
> open(/var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission
denied
> (euid=2151(jbkirk) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm:
> /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log, dir owned by 3575:12
> mode=0770)
Index files are not disabled.
> dovecot -n output
>
> # 2.1.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.9.2-200.fc18.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
> ext4
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> auth_verbose = yes
> auth_verbose_passwords = plain
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> mail_location =
> mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u
> mbox_write_locks = fcntl
> namespace inbox {
> inbox = yes
> location > mailbox Drafts {
> special_use = \Drafts
> }
> mailbox Junk {
> special_use = \Junk
> }
> mailbox Sent {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox "Sent Messages" {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox Trash {
> special_use = \Trash
> }
> prefix > }
> passdb {
> driver = pam
> }
> protocols = pop3
> ssl = no
> ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
> driver = passwd
> }
>
> What do I need to do to transition to the new mail_location without the
> errors?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
- --
Steffen Kaiser
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