[Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 20 19:37:02 EEST 2006


On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:07 -0700, Patrick Carney wrote:
> “Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree
> file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted
> isn't higher than existing (2 <= 504)”

> Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take
> over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered
> Dovecot before.

You're using 0.99.x Dovecot and there's not much point anymore in trying
to figure out why it's broken. I'd suggest upgrading to 1.0beta versions
as the first step. If it still breaks after that I can help debug it
further.

Also see http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot

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