[Dovecot] removing uid, index and cache files

[Lars Uhlmann]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:14:51 -0500
Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:

> > Since a couple of days we're facing a problem with dovecot/MUA and
> > multiple appeareances of single mails. The mail is physical existant
> > only once but outlook shows it twice or more times. Then after some
> > minutes these multiple "virtual" mails just disappear. Because this
> > happens with different MUAs (Outlook and Thunderbid) I assume
> > dovecot causes the problem.
> > 
> > All mail are received by »getmail« from outside via POP3 and
> > delivered to the users local Maildir. This was working without
> > problems for over a year now.
> > 
> > Is it save to remove to following files (will dovecot rebuild them)
> > from every users Maildir?
> > 
> >  dovecot.index
> >  dovecot.index.cache
> >  dovecot.index.log
> >  dovecot.index.log.2
> >  dovecot-uidlist
> 
> version?

1.0.beta8

It's an older version i know. But it was working a long time without
truble.

> output of dovecot -n?

,-----
| log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S 
| protocols: imap
| listen: 192.168.0.110
| disable_plaintext_auth: no
| login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
| login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
| mail_extra_groups: mail
| default_mail_env: maildir:~/Maildir
| auth default:
|   passdb:
|     driver: pam
|   userdb:
|     driver: passwd
`-----

Lars