Hi, I went into,
/home/thing/mail/.imap/INBOX and mv'd the contents to safe/ I then re-connected and I can now re-connect....Dovecot re-created the following files, -rw------- 1 thing thing 7976 2008-04-06 12:39 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 thing thing 18432 2008-04-06 12:40 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 thing thing 10100 2008-04-06 12:40 dovecot.index.log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-06 12:37 safe Looking at safe/ hermes:/home/thing/mail/.imap/INBOX# ls -l safe/ total 376 -rw------- 1 thing thing 7976 2008-04-06 09:25 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 thing thing 136192 2008-04-06 09:55 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 thing thing 88096 2008-04-06 09:55 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 thing thing 131132 2008-03-30 19:21 dovecot.index.log.2 hermes:/home/thing/mail/.imap/INBOX# So maybe dovecot.index.cache became corrupt? regards Steven On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Thing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the fast reply! > > Looks like Debian Dovecot itself is actually OK. To determine this firstly > I created a new user and find I can connect to the new user's inbox using > squrrelmail OK, but some old users dont work.... > > I next connected to another user's account and that works fine... > > so I assume its a "format" issue of the mail structure for that one > user...The Q is how to re-instate/repair the existing mail box for the old > user(s)....is there a script I an run to repair? or update the format? > > As below, test is the new user and is OK, phoebe is an old user and is OK, > user thing is broken.... > > regards > > Steven > > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:09:36 Error: IMAP(thing): seq = 186, rec->uid = 0, > first_new_seq = 188, records = 187 > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:09:36 Error: child 21078 (imap) killed with signal > 6 > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:12:35 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<phoebe>, > method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.102, lip=192.168.1.254, TLS > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:12:35 Info: IMAP(phoebe): Disconnected: Logged out > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:17:34 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<phoebe>, > method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.102, lip=192.168.1.254, TLS > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:17:34 Info: IMAP(phoebe): Disconnected: Logged out > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:17:55 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<test>, > method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:17:55 Info: IMAP(test): Disconnected: Logged out > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:17:55 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<test>, > method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:17:58 Info: IMAP(test): Disconnected: Logged out > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:18:58 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<phoebe>, > method=plain, rip=192.168.1.101, lip=192.168.1.254, TLS > dovecot: 2008-04-06 12:19:16 Info: IMAP(phoebe): Disconnected in IDLE > >