On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 15:03 -0400, Erik Kratzenberg wrote: > >>>> -Dovecot.log : Mar 29 11:00:06 Error: POP3(user_login): > >> > > Couldn't init INBOX: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox > >> > > -The mailbox start with either 'FFrom or 'FrFrom' > It's happening several times a day, sometimes to the same mailbox.
How often does the same user get the error? > We also noticed some other storage and assertion errors around the same > time the corruption occurs which may or may not be related: > > Mar 26 14:49:36 dovecot: Panic: POP3(u...@home.com): > file mbox-sync.c: line 1314 (mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates): assertion > failed: (offset == 0|| offset > 31) There's a good chance this is related. > Mar 24 15:21:59 dovecot: POP3(u...@home.com): Cached > message offset 2 is invalid for mbox file > /usr/boxes/mailbox Are you using filesystem quota for users? That might explain this. Otherwise, the above shouldn't be happening if Dovecot is the only software writing to the mbox files.. > I'm not sure if "mail_debug=yes" will give us any additional info, but > I'm turning that on now. No, that won't log anything useful.
