On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:44:55AM -0400, Kevin Old wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm getting the error below for 2 different users on my system of 150+ > users in Dovecot: > > Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3-login: Login: cah [::ffff:172.16.3.107] > Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Error indexing mbox file > /var/mail/cah: LF not found where expected > Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Error indexing mbox file > /var/mail/cah: LF not found where expected > Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error > occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-09-12 > 09:32:49] > > I've read in the archives that it's the blank line at the beginning of > the mbox file (http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-January/002790.html), > and once deleted everything works fine. > > The thing is, it keeps happening and I can't figure out why. Email > clients that send mail to these accounts are the latest Outlook > Express. As I said, I have 150+ users on the same system and they are > fine. > > I'm not sure if protocol makes a difference, but we are using POP3 only. > > Any ideas what I can do to fix/prevent/correct this either > programatically or with a patch of some sort? > > Is this actively being worked on? > > I'm running FC4 with dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4. > > Any help is appreciated! > > Kevin > -- My only real question is why this is working for any of your mail users. For at least a long time mail files for users are placed in /var/spool/mail/<username>. I can't really see why dovecot is pushing to expect the mail folders in /var/mail/<username> . I just ignored that aspect of the dovecot.conf file that had you set up /var/mail/ as the mail holding directory. Is that where your users keep their mail. That is certainly where sendmail expects these files to be. Maybe your 2 users are the only ones keeping mail in the right place. It certainly seems that way from your error messages. -- ======================================================================= Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest" ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
