[TriLUG] Squirrelmail and Dovecot problem

[Marc Wiatrowski]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Hennessee
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 4:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Squirrelmail and Dovecot problem
> 
> Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
> >> -----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
> > 
> > 
> There is an mbox file with permissions 644. I've made it 666 
> to see if 
> that makes a difference.
> 

Actually I meant files starting with 'INBOX.'  but actually now
looking at my install, I'm using squirrlmail with wu-imap, not
dovecot... So its gonna be different.  sorry.

marc