[TriLUG] Squirrelmail and Dovecot problem

[Glenn Hennessee]

I have a user with a strange problem with squirrelmail and dovecot. The 
error he gets is in his browser is:

ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
Query: EXAMINE "INBOX"

and what I see in the mail.err log is

Sep 18 14:59:24 chemdept dovecot: imap(username): file 
mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion 
failed: (start_pos < data_size)
Sep 18 14:59:24 chemdept dovecot: child 30287 (imap) killed with signal 6

I searched google and the only think I found suggested copying the mbox 
file to a new file, delete the old and rename the new. I tried this with 
his mail spool file and the mbox file in his home directory but had no 
luck -- the problem persists. He can access his mail with Eudora without 
any problem, it's just squirrelmail.

any ideas?
Thanks.
glenn

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Glenn Hennessee
Department of Chemistry
NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27606
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Email: Glenn_Hennessee at ncsu.edu