"Corrupted dbox file [...] purging found mismatched offsets"

Jesus Cea jcea at jcea.es
Tue Jul 29 00:06:43 UTC 2014


On 29/07/14 01:21, Daniel Parthey wrote:
> Are you using dovecot director and a shared filesystem like NFS?
> 
> You not only need to run imap and pop3 service via director,
> but also the doveadm service, otherwise different hosts might
> access the mdbox simultaneously, which will corrupt your index
> files and you will lose flags.

No, this is a dovecot server running in my own laptop. I guess some
computer crash left the mail in an inconsistent state, and I need to
assert the extend of the problem. A well designed system should not lose
email, even when crashes are involved.

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