Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:50:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mail Spool Problems / IMAP Message-ID: <20080408093857.F77630@ns1.kq6up.org> In-Reply-To: <20080408163446.GE86589@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20080407084644.T69126@ns1.kq6up.org> <3B719C19-1051-491D-936F-158C4A58D49E@mac.com> <20080407174833.O72600@ns1.kq6up.org> <20080408163446.GE86589@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:49:16PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>
> The best way is to look at the file with an editor such as vi.
>
> ////jerry
>
>>
How is this header look? I am not quite sure of what I am looking for.
>From MAILER-DAEMON Tue Apr 8 10:49:02 2008
Date: 08 Apr 2008 10:49:02 -0700
From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON@chrismaness.com>
Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
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Status: RO
This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software.
If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
with the data reset to initial values.
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