On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 15:44 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: > 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
Well thanks - but I have been using an mbox setup for about 10 years. It is only since I upgraded to F20 that I have been experiencing this problem. I may look at switching to maildir for the future, but for now that's too big a job... Any other ideas? Thanks Mark