[horde] Horde messes up Dovecot index (or index log)?

[Spyros Tsiolis]

--- On Mon, 2/5/11, Jussi Hirvi <listmember at greenspot.fi> wrote:

> From: Jussi Hirvi <listmember at greenspot.fi>
> Subject: [horde] Horde messes up Dovecot index (or index log)?
> To: horde at lists.horde.org
> Date: Monday, 2 May, 2011, 23:59
> Any issues with using Horde with
> Sendmail, and Dovecot?
> 
> By googling, I found something about Maildir format. I
> could not verify if Horde still uses Maildir format instead
> of mbox, but at least in my setup it seems to use mboxes
> quite happily. It only adds a couple of extra lines to
> existing mboxes. For example:
> > X-IMAPbase: 1304002269 0000000003
> > X-UID: 1
> 
> Simultaneously as I was testing Horde, I got a couple fo
> worrying entries in maillog:
> 
> May  2 21:08:27 mail dovecot: IMAP(jushirvi):
> Corrupted transaction log file
> /home/myhome/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log:
> start_offset (10464) > file size (2748)
> 
> May  2 21:11:24 mail dovecot: IMAP(jushirvi):
> Transaction log file
> /home/myhome/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: marked
> corrupted
> 
> This is probably due to Horde adding those extra lines to
> the regular mail inbox in /var/spool/mail/.
> 
> Could this be a problem? I am not sure what "index log"
> does.
> 
> I have hundreds of mail users waiting to get their hands on
> Horde, and they will give me a hard time if they lose data.
> 
> - Jussi
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Are you sure it's a Horde issue ?
I am no guru, but I'll have to ask you ; Which version of dovecot are
you running ?

Mailbox or Maildir ?


Regards,

s.


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