Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot crashing

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 8, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:

Dovecot is crashing on a certain user inbox which is in mbox format as
well as one of the users other mbox files. The crash doesn't exactly

might be some other insight into this process or how to fix it.

Here is the error in the log files:
Aug  8 09:26:07 localhost dovecot: IMAP(user): UIDVALIDITY changed
(1216167307 -> 1218134720) in mbox file /var/mail/user

match what is listed in the aforementioned wiki page, so I thought their

Why did it change? Does it change often? It should never change. The MboxProblems wiki page shows the possible reasons for this.

Aug 8 09:26:07 localhost dovecot: Panic: IMAP(user): file index- sync.c:

line 39 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed:
(seq_range_exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid))

This is a bug caused by the UIDVALIDITY change. I think it happens only once though and after the next login it works? Anyway I should try to get this fixed.

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