[TriLUG] Squirrelmail and Dovecot problem

[Marc Wiatrowski]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Hennessee
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:15 PM
> Subject: [TriLUG] Squirrelmail and Dovecot problem
> 
> I have a user with a strange problem with squirrelmail and 
> dovecot. The 
> error he gets is in his browser is:
> 
> ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
> Query: EXAMINE "INBOX"
> 
> and what I see in the mail.err log is
> 
> Sep 18 14:59:24 chemdept dovecot: imap(username): file 
> mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): 
> assertion 
> failed: (start_pos < data_size)
> Sep 18 14:59:24 chemdept dovecot: child 30287 (imap) killed 
> with signal 6
> 
> I searched google and the only think I found suggested 
> copying the mbox 
> file to a new file, delete the old and rename the new. I 
> tried this with 
> his mail spool file and the mbox file in his home directory 
> but had no 
> luck -- the problem persists. He can access his mail with 
> Eudora without 
> any problem, it's just squirrelmail.

What about INBOX.* files in the users account?  Are there
any? Would dovecot have permissions to create/write them?

marc