From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 00:46:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F998106564A for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:46:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83B388FC20 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:46:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay13.apple.com (relay13.apple.com [17.128.113.29]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE3B2770389; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay13.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 31B8628050; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:46:37 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 1180711d-ae705bb0000008fb-42-47fac06d32bf Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) by relay13.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 1856B2804F; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3B719C19-1051-491D-936F-158C4A58D49E@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Chris Maness In-Reply-To: <20080407084644.T69126@ns1.kq6up.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:46:36 -0700 References: <20080407084644.T69126@ns1.kq6up.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Mail Spool Problems / IMAP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:46:37 -0000 Hi, Chris-- On Apr 7, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Chris Maness wrote: > I am having trouble with my imap account on my FreeBSD box. I am > using WU-IMAP, and thuderbird. I have been using this combo for > years, and not had any issues. Now, my thuderbird is not displaying > messages in the inbox. I can see them with pine, but not with IMAP > clients. (squirrelmail, thunderbird). Pine complains about sequence > error when I send a message. I was able to get it to work for a bit > by deleteing the mbox file in my home directory, but now it is not > working again. IS there a database or something somewhere that > needs to be rebult? Can you double-check your mbox file? With the most recent 2007 version of UW-IMAP, I've seen intermittent corruption of the first line of a mbox file (ie, the "From foo" header) which causes the mbox to be unreadable by most clients until it is fixed by hand. It seems to be correlated with simultaneous write access by people who have a normal MUA and a second device like a smartphone (iPhone/Treo/BB). I've seen just over a half-dozen of these since Jan... -- -Vhuvk