Ok, I did as you suggested. It worked. Wish I knew why. Would you happen to have a link to a basic explanation of the mail_location parameter? I looked in the wiki and I'm obviously missing some fundamental knowledge which the wiki builds on.
Thanks :) -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo....@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo....@dovecot.org]on Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 6:04 PM To: Cliff Hayes Cc: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] FW: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Well, that just wouldn't work. And I don't think I really even want to make it work. On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 16:44 -0600, Cliff Hayes wrote: > Would it be better to just drop the mbox part? Like this: > > mail_location = INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u > > -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo....@dovecot.org > [mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo....@dovecot.org]on Behalf Of Timo > Sirainen > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:04 PM > To: Cliff Hayes > Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] FW: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from > index > > > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 17:05 -0600, Cliff Hayes wrote: > > Nevermind. I figured it out. I left off the INDEX command. Sorry to spam > > the mail list :( > > > > Here is my mail_location for future reference / searches: > > > > mail_location = > > mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u > > You shouldn't use /var/spool/mail as the mail root anyway. I suppose > you're using only POP3, but if you ever happen to (even accidentally) > enable IMAP access the above configuration may give access to other > users' mails (although I suppose the filesystem permissions will prevent > that if you're using system users). > > In any case, I'd suggest something like: > > mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u > >
