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After installing a new server with dovecot 1.2.4, I found there is some new dovecot-uidvalidity* files in user's Maildir directory. However, I did not see such files in other servers with dovecot 1.1.2 (around 2008/07). What is function of those files? What will happen if I delete that files? I am curious why need to keep 2 files: dovecot-uidvalidity dovecot-uidvalidity.4aa4fa4c since t...

...ons I first connect (in Thunderbird) to dovecot with user 'hummel', then with user 'doveimap'. The following files are created in /path/to/public/ : -rw------- 1 doveimap doveshared 40 Jan 30 14:03 dovecot-acl-list -rw------- 1 hummel doveshared 8 Jan 30 14:03 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 hummel doveshared 0 Jan 30 14:02 dovecot-uidvalidity.4982fa7a I've got my own idea about what they're used for, but can you explain what they are supposed to be ? I guess the uidvalidity files are UIDVALIDITY, not for the mailboxes the namespace holds (since my under...

...nfs store. We do not use any virtual mailboxes. Since upgrading from dovecot version 1.0.rc15 (debian stable) to 1.0.13 (debian etch-backport) we got the following error logs. Excerpt from mail.err: Apr 21 12:04:38 servera deliver(usera): /var/mail/Maildir/usera/dovecot-uidlist: Broken header (uidvalidity = 0, next_uid=9) Apr 21 15:37:50 servera deliver(userb): /var/mail/Maildir/userb/dovecot-uidlist: Broken header (uidvalidity = 0, next_uid=16) Apr 23 10:37:17 servera dovecot: IMAP(userc): /var/mail/Maildir/userc/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist: Broken header (uidvalidity = 0, next_uid=2) Apr 25 17:00:1...

Hello, I can't? locate the dovecot.index in my ~/Maildir [root at fedora-p24 Maildir]# ls cur????????????????? dovecot-uidlist?????????????? new dovecot.index.cache? dovecot-uidvalidity?????????? subscriptions dovecot.index.log??? dovecot-uidvalidity.4b1e77ef? tmp Where is the dovecot.index ? This tutorial http://wiki.dovecot.org/IndexFiles tells that I should find it where the other indexes are by default under ~/Maildir I don't understand the IMAP UID mapping [root at fe...

...X" a2 OK List completed. a3 create new1 a3 OK Create completed. a4 create new2 a4 OK Create completed. a5 select new1 * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] a5 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. a6 select new2 * OK [CLOSED] * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 0 EXISTS *...

...gle Mail]/Starred" 1586512884.161789 * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Google Mail]/mark_as_spam" 1586512884.161789 * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Google Mail]/mining" 1586512884.161789 4 OK Success 1586512884.317802 * STATUS "INBOX" (UIDNEXT 110434 UIDVALIDITY 602828375) 1586512884.317802 5 OK Success 1586512884.462612 * STATUS "[Google Mail]/All Mail" (UIDNEXT 231431 UIDVALIDITY 602828395) 1586512884.462612 6 OK Success 1586512884.606828 * STATUS "[Google Mail]/Bin" (UIDNEXT 21532 UIDVALIDITY 602828376) 1586512884.606828 7 OK Success...

Should I be considered with this log entry? rename(/home/vmail/jeff/dovecot-uidvalidity, /home/vmail/jeff/dovecot-uidvalidity) failed: No such file or directory

> On 31 Mar 2020, at 23.18, Ben Mulvihill <ben.mulvihill at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello again, > > I am still stuck I'm afraid. > > I now have doveadm backup working perfectly from > a small gmail mailbox (a few hundred messages), but > when I try the same configuration (apart from usernames > and passwords obviously) with a large gmail mailbox >

...t HG of Dovecot 2.0 throws a warning when creating a new mailbox inside an INBOX with 'mdbox' format. It does however create the mailbox correctly. ==> /var/log/dovecot.log <== Apr 24 14:35:09 spectre dovecot: imap(tlx at leuxner.net): rename(/var/vmail/leuxner.net/tlx/mdbox/dovecot-uidvalidity, /var/vmail/leuxner.net/tlx/mdbox/dovecot-uidvalidity) failed: No such file or directory $ ls -al /var/vmail/leuxner.net/tlx/mdbox total 36 drwx--S--- 4 vmail vmail 4096 2010-04-24 14:37 . drwx--S--- 4 vmail vmail 4096 2010-04-19 10:23 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 386 2010-03-25 19:58 dovecot-a...

Running 2.0.beta5 on Mac OS X with HFS+J, I often see this error in the log: Fri May 14 12:25:59 gromit dovecot[5466]: imap(pid 8101 user joe): Error: mdbox /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/mailboxes/INBOX/Foobar/dbox-Mails: map uidvalidity mismatch (1273852899 vs 1273853949) Fri May 14 12:25:59 gromit dovecot[5466]: imap(pid 8101 user joe): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-05-14 12:25:59] bytes=1337/4443 Fri May 14 12:25:59 gromit dovecot[5466]: imap(pid 8101 user joe): Warning: m...

After the LOGIN do STATUS "User/somemailbox": a0007 STATUS "INBOX/Rechnung" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT) a0008 STATUS "User/lists at example.com/Announce" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT) a0009 STATUS "User/system at example.com/INBOX-root" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT) a0010 STATUS "User/test at example.com/Shared" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECE...

..."AutoSpam" and "Trash" that pruned using Washington's "mailutil" automatically every so often. Of course, Dovecot's indexes will become invalid in such cases, but they seem to get rebuilt automatically OK. However, in some cases UW-IMAP seems to change the UIDVALIDITY value (not sure why!) and when Dovecot tries to sync it notices this and gives up with a fatal error on opening that folder. Opening the folder a second time is then OK. I was wondering why Dovecot can't just rebuild the indexes silently in such cases (which seems to be done by returning &...

...@doveadm mailbox status [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] <fields> <mailbox> [...] The user is archive The user home folder is this: # pwd /home/mail/archive/Maildir This what in it. # ls cur dovecot.index.log dovecot.mailbox.log.2 dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca19bb tmp dovecot.index dovecot.index.log.2 dovecot-uidlist dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca19bc dovecot.index.cache dovecot-keywords dovecot-uidvalidity dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca1b2d dovecot.index.cache.gz dovecot-keywords.gz dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca19...

...ng and mirroring mail from an external party's IMAP server to a local Maildir, which will be accessed by Dovecot 2.0.9. In order to prevent IMAP clients from re-downloading their mail, when connecting to Dovecot, I'm busy writing a script to generate appropriate dovecot-uidlist and dovecot-uidvalidity files, per Maildir. isync stores the uid in the filename, so that's extractable, per message, and the uidvalidity and current max uid are stored in a file .uidvalidity, in each Maildir. I've read the docs here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir Regarding the dovecot-uidlist...

...ox? Currently my folder structure looks like this (I hope the output from tree would be formatted well): /srv/mail/ ??? example.com ??? ??? user ??????? ??? dovecot-acl-list ??????? ??? dovecot-attributes ??????? ??? dovecot.list.index.log ??????? ??? dovecot.mailbox.log ??????? ??? dovecot-uidvalidity ??????? ??? dovecot-uidvalidity.5b3f746f ??????? ??? mailboxes ??????? ??? ??? Drafts ??????? ??? ??? ??? dbox-Mails ??????? ??? ??????? ??? dovecot.index.log ??????? ??? ??? INBOX ??????? ??? ??? ??? dbox-Mails ??????? ??? ??????? ??? dovecot.index.cache ??????? ??? ??????? ??? dovecot.in...

...pe d | xargs --replace /usr/local/scripts/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --overwrite --recursive --convert {} ( /home is hashed two levels deep: /home/a/a/aanton/Maildir/ ) After that, I got lots of errors like: Aug 9 13:02:40 postamt dovecot: IMAP(azenclu): Maildir /home/a/z/azenclu/Maildir sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1167827929 -> 1058881980) Aug 9 13:03:46 postamt dovecot: POP3(bbuhse): Couldn't init INBOX: BUG: Unknown internal error Aug 9 13:03:46 postamt dovecot: POP3(bbuhse): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Aug 9 13:04:14 postamt dovecot: IMAP(bkusma): Maildir /hom...

...this, please. How would omitting the global uid field, beginning with G, affect remote clients' syncing of mail? Is this field mandatory? Would "3 V$uid_validity N$next_uid" be sufficient to ensure that clients don't re-download everything? I also see that Dovecot's dovecot-uidvalidity is of the form 4df8a4e2, whereas the IMAP syncing utility which I'm using (isync) uses an integer. I'd appreciate it if someone could elaborate on what Dovecot uses and whether I need to convert one to the other (ie. after syncing with isync, do I need to convert it to work with Dovecot? T...

...lt;socket_path>] <fields> <mailbox> [...] > > The user is archive > > The user home folder is this: > # pwd > /home/mail/archive/Maildir > > This what in it. > # ls > cur dovecot.index.log dovecot.mailbox.log.2 dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca19bb tmp > dovecot.index dovecot.index.log.2 dovecot-uidlist dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca19bc > dovecot.index.cache dovecot-keywords dovecot-uidvalidity dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca1b2d > dovecot.index.cache.gz dovecot-keywords.gz dovecot-uid...

Running current CVS HEAD I get: dovecot: Dec 01 13:27:38 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test52 starting up dovecot: Dec 01 13:33:34 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.162.177.245] dovecot: Dec 01 13:41:07 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:41:07 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:42:39 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:42:39...

...email's UID as a key; thus, if the UID of a particular email were to change on a server then the client's cached state would be invalid. To cope with the case that the UIDs need to be invalidated, whether because the original store has been lost or for some other reason, there is also the UIDVALIDITY number. This 32bit integer must be increased to some higher value to indicate that any previously cached email ids are now invalid. In Dovecot-managed mbox files, this number is stored in the X-IMAPbase header in the first message of that mbox and is typically the uid-invalidation time expresse...