[Dovecot] Corrupted mailboxes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jan 31 17:28:15 EET 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:18 +0100, Vincent Jaussaud wrote:
> > > The only way to fix it when this happens, is to manually edit the file,
> > > and remove the first line feed at the very beginning of the mailbox
> > > file.
> > 
> > Is it always the first LF?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Actually, deleting the user completely from the system, and recreating
> it seems to fix the problem. That's weird. 

Probably same as if you had deleted .imap/ directory, ie. Dovecot's
indexes.

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