On Thursday 29 April 2010 15:33:02 Mike Abbott wrote: > > To recover from this error I think I need to: > > > > 1. service dovecot stop > > 2. rename all the mail files to have the S=nnnn match the size of the file > > on disk > > > 3. remove all the dovecot.* files > > 4. service dovecot start > > > > Is this correct? > > I believe so but I'm not an authority on this part. Note that removing the > dovecot.* files has other side effects, like making your clients re-download > all the messages again, and losing any keywords. > > If you instead just remove the X-Spambayes-Trained header (and any other > headers that might have been added after delivery) from the affected messages > (using, e.g., sed), you might be able to skip step 3.
Thanks for the confirmation. I follow steps 1 to 4 and I'm back working. I though about rewriting every file but considered removing the dovecot files the lesser of two evils. Barry
