[TriLUG] Squirrelmail and Dovecot problem

[Glenn Hennessee]

Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Glenn Hennessee
>> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:15 PM
>> Subject: [TriLUG] Squirrelmail and Dovecot problem
>>
>> 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.
> 
> What about INBOX.* files in the users account?  Are there
> any? Would dovecot have permissions to create/write them?
> 
> marc
> 
> 
There is an mbox file with permissions 644. I've made it 666 to see if 
that makes a difference.


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Glenn Hennessee
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