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

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jussi Hirvi <listmember at greenspot.fi>:

> 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

These are dovecot errors/issues.  Horde/IMP interacts with Dovecot  
through the IMAP protocol, but how Dovecot internally stores mail  
messages is entirely transparent to Horde/IMP (this is the whole point  
of IMAP - to abstract local mail store access).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]