Maybe the index is corrupted too and the index.cache is a cached version of the corrupted index?
Are you using NFS with mdbox and accessing one nfs mailbox directory concurrently from several dovecot hosts?
Maybe the index is corrupted too and the index.cache is a cached version of the corrupted index?
Are you using NFS with mdbox and accessing one nfs mailbox directory concurrently from several dovecot hosts?