Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:34:46 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mail Spool Problems / IMAP Message-ID: <20080408163446.GE86589@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20080407174833.O72600@ns1.kq6up.org> References: <20080407084644.T69126@ns1.kq6up.org> <3B719C19-1051-491D-936F-158C4A58D49E@mac.com> <20080407174833.O72600@ns1.kq6up.org>
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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 > > Chris Maness > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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