[Dovecot] Large mbox files.

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Jun 24 21:04:18 EEST 2006


On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 11:05 +1000, Kevin Warren wrote:
> I'm very sorry if this is a faq.  I've spent considerable time reading
> documentation and doing Google searches to no avail...and the mailing list
> archive isn't searchable as far as I can tell.
> 
> Anyway, the question:  When I try to open a large mbox file from Squirrel Mail I
> receive the following Dovecot error:
> 
> Jun 23 10:47:55 jetta dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(kevin): file
> mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 400 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): ass
> ertion failed: (need_space == (uoff_t)-mails[idx].space)
> Jun 23 10:47:56 jetta dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 28535 (imap) killed
> with signal 6

Dovecot doesn't like your mbox for some reason. Does it maybe have CR+LF
linefeeds? That wasn't fixed in beta9 yet. If not, could you put the
mbox through http://dovecot.org/tools/mbox-anonymize.pl and send it to
me?
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