Timo Sirainen ha scritto: > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 11:08 +0100, Claudio Prono wrote: > >> Today i have manually copied at least 250 mail from a mailbox to another >> and i have encountered some problems with dovecot. When finished to >> download all the messages, via pop3, at the next check mail dovecot give >> me that error: >> > > Since POP3 supports only downloading mails, I guess this copying > operation was the same as if you simply had downloaded the mails. > > I think so also, before what is happened... >> dovecot: Jan 15 10:59:55 Info: POP3(mich...@domain.net): Mailbox init >> failed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/29, size=932800 >> > > Do you see another error message? This isn't actually error (see the > Info: line there). The error message should be written either before > that line, or perhaps in another log file entirely. See > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging > > I have looked at all the logging file of Dovecot, but no other error found... >> Then, the messages from the pop server was deleted, >> > > Probably the messages were deleted by the previous download? This error > message doesn't cause messages to be deleted. > > No, sorry i have explained bad what is happened. The Client have downloaded all the mail, without problems. Then, i have send to him a mail for testing purpouse, and the error is happened. The client have got an error like "can't do STAT command to mail server, connection lost", the mail i have sended to him is deleted, and no mail was recieved from the Client. >> I have resolved that deleting all the dovecot files into the mailbox, so: >> >> dovecot-uidlist >> dovecot.index >> dovecot.index.cache >> dovecot.index.log >> > > Deleting only the dovecot.index* files would probably have been enough. > > Yes can be. >> Then, all restarted to works normally, but...the most bad thing is... >> the lost mails! >> > > You mean that all the 250 mails weren't copied, or they were all copied > but also deleted? > > See my previous explaination. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > !DSPAM:70,496f59d3137471420520662! Thank u,
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