Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:49:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mail Spool Problems / IMAP Message-ID: <20080407174833.O72600@ns1.kq6up.org> In-Reply-To: <3B719C19-1051-491D-936F-158C4A58D49E@mac.com> References: <20080407084644.T69126@ns1.kq6up.org> <3B719C19-1051-491D-936F-158C4A58D49E@mac.com>
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> 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 > Thanks, How do I check it? Should I use another IMAP server? Chris Maness
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