Am 27.05.2014 14:56, schrieb Arthur Dent: > Hello All, > > I have a Dovecot v2.2.12 installation running on a Fedora 20 box which > is the mailserver for my family. This means that it is serving only 4 > accounts. > > I use fetchmail->procmail to feed Dovecot and I read my mail on clients > such as Evolution on (another) Fedora 20 machine, iPad/iPhone or > squirrelmail on the web (running on the same Fedora 20 server). > > The average mail throughput for the whole family is around a couple of > hundred messages per day, but each (and every) day I get between 3 and > 10 of the following messages: > > dovecot: imap(mark): Error: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox > file /home/mark/mail/MLists/Fail2Ban at 3407473: 1 Time(s) > > I have googled, but with little success. What I have found seemed to > suggest that removing the .index files and allowing Dovecot to rebuild > them will solve this. I did: > find /home -type f -name "dovecot.index.*" -exec rm -f {} \; > but it has made no difference. > > Can anyone help me solve this please?
at this small setup simply use maildir as format and use getmail to fetch, sieve may do sorting see https://sys4.de/de/blog/2013/04/12/abholdienst-fur-mail/ sorry german but setup should speak for its own getmail does also deliver into maildir directly ( without dovecot deliver ) if you dont need to sort through sieve > > Thanks in advance > > Mark > Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein