I don't think any other process is writing to my mailbox file, but I don't know how to be sure. Is there anyway to debug this problem? Is the only solution to reinstall linux?
Thanks, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Crispin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Champion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:36 PM Subject: Re: Message 186 UID 361 greater than last 189 ??? > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Mark Champion wrote: > > > I understand that message UID order is somehow mixed up, but I don't > > > know how to fix it. > > You can't fix it. All you can do is prevent it from happening again. > > You are almost certainly using traditional UNIX mailbox format. > > Something other than [imapd | ipop3d | pine | other program based upon the > c-client library] is manipulating your mailbox file(s). In the error > message that you reported, the 186th message has a UID of 361. This is > reasonable, except that the mailbox metadata reports that the highest > assigned UID in the mailbox is 189. > > The c-client library always updates the "highest assigned UID" when > adding a message with a UID. Consequently, something else put that > message there. > > Perhaps you have spam filter software which, after a mailbox has been > opened, goes through the mailbox and copies messages to another mailbox. > If that spam filter is not based upon the c-client library, it may not > know better than to copy the X-UID: header. > > The solution is to fix things so that whatever entity is playing with your > mailbox file is forbidden to touch "old messages" which have a UID > assigned. > > If Squirrelmail is accessing your mailbox file directly, see if it can be > made to use POP3 or IMAP instead. > > -- Mark -- > > http://staff.washington.edu/mrc > Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. > Si vis pacem, para bellum. >
