On Tuesday 25 May 2010 16:26:15 Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 18:21 +0100, Barry Scott wrote: > > May 4 15:25:03 f12barry dovecot: IMAP(bscott): Maildir filename has > > wrong W value: > > /home/bscott/Maildir/._NewMail-com/cur/1271683097.M615087P3538.f12barry.o > >ffice.onelan.co.uk,S=3154,W=3278:2,S > > S=3154 means the file's size should be 3154 bytes. > W=3278 means the file's "virtual size" = size if linefeeds were CRLF > should be 3278 bytes. > > Easy way to check these values is with e.g.: > > # wc 1274725794.M935807P27627.kurkku,S=1901,W=1951:2, > 50 212 1901 1274725794.M935807P27627.kurkku,S=1901,W=1951:2, > # echo 1901+50|bc > 1951 > > If W value is wrong, it's not currently fixed automatically. Because it > just shouldn't happen. How are you delivering new mails? That file looks > like it's created by Dovecot. So the only possibilities are: > > a) Something modified the file after it was already written.
This was the cause. I had miss configured spambayes and it was updating the files. I had figure out to fix up the S= values but had not fixed the W= values. Again, Thanks for the info. Barry