Look, I haven't chanced the conf, but I've had these problems since
19.10:

May 11 11:11:32 mail dovecot: imap(mac)<1488494><mmGrRmOllcjMehAG>: Error: 
Mailbox Trash: copy: i_stream_read(/var/spool/mail/mac) failed: Cached message 
size larger than expected (5548 > 5547, box=INBOX, UID=27882)
May 11 11:12:05 mail dovecot: imap(mac)<1488582><XkqwSGOlzcjMehAG>: Error: 
Corrupted record in index cache file 
/var/dovecot-index/mac/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: UID 20762: Broken 
physical size in mailbox INBOX: read(/var/spool/mail/mac) failed: Cached 
message size larger than expected (5174 > 5173, box=INBOX, UID=20762)
May 11 11:12:05 mail dovecot: imap(mac)<1488582><XkqwSGOlzcjMehAG>: Error: 
Mailbox Trash: copy: i_stream_read(/var/spool/mail/mac) failed: Cached message 
size larger than expected (5174 > 5173, box=INBOX, UID=20762)
May 11 11:27:11 mail dovecot: imap(ariex)<1491563><3ZvEfmOlPBeu2Bgu>: Error: 
Mailbox Trash: lseek() failed with mbox: Illegal seek
May 11 11:42:18 mail dovecot: imap(ariex)<1491563><3ZvEfmOlPBeu2Bgu>: Error: 
Mailbox Trash: lseek() failed with mbox: Illegal seek
May 11 11:57:23 mail dovecot: imap(ariex)<1491563><3ZvEfmOlPBeu2Bgu>: Error: 
Mailbox Trash: lseek() failed with mbox: Illegal seek
May 11 12:05:42 mail dovecot: imap(wstewart)<1499301><8/6ICGSlwswYEDrL>: Error: 
Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file /var/spool/mail/wstewart at 
492309796

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On Mon, 11 May 2020, Christian Ehrhardt  wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 11:38:01 -0000
> From: Christian Ehrhardt  <1876...@bugs.launchpad.net>
> To: nan...@eskimo.com
> Subject: [Bug 1876537] Re: dovecot eating mail indexes /var/dovecot-index/user
> 
> I'm wondering about the temper here, you got three responses in four days.
> Where is that a lack of attention or "being ignored".
>
> All I see is:
> - Paride was asking for more info than "Something is happening to the 
> dovecot-index file" which seems fine to me.
> - Lucas later marked it invalid after your debugging showed that it doesn't 
> appear as a bug in the dovecot code or its packaging.
> - Rafael tried to explain options if you want a higher support level. You 
> might not want that, but there is nothing bad in him telling you I'd think.
>
> Finally you said " I will just compile it myself" - does that imply there is 
> indeed a fix that makes it handle corrupted inboxes more gracefully? If so 
> could you point to a commit or upstream discussion.
> I'm asking as we are most likely going to bump 2.3.7.2 to 2.3.10 this cycle 
> and if your fix is upstream we should get it by that for Ubuntu 20.10 and 
> later. But furthermore the questions will then become if there is an isolated 
> fix that is SRU-backportable - so if you have identified one please let us 
> know.
>
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> Title:
>  dovecot eating mail indexes /var/dovecot-index/user
>
> Status in dovecot package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>       I will get reports of users being able to connect, authenticate, but 
> then not have any mail
>  available when there is new mail in their INBOX.  Something is happening to 
> the dovecot-index file
>  for that user because deleting it restores their ability to get mail.
>
>       I have never had this happen before in six years of using dovecot, it 
> is only since upgrade
>  to 20.04 that this started happening.  I made no local conf changes.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
>  Package: dovecot-core 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3 [modified: 
> lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service]
>  Uname: Linux 5.6.0 x86_64
>  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
>  Architecture: amd64
>  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
>  Date: Sat May  2 17:23:01 2020
>  ProcEnviron:
>   TERM=xterm-color
>   PATH=(custom, no user)
>   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: dovecot
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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