On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:41 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Quoting Timo Sirainen <[email protected]>: > > Have you checked if there are any errors in Dovecot logs? There are some > > reasons why Dovecot might give a new UID to an existing mail. dovecot -n > > output might also be useful. > > > thanks for the reply. I just checked and the file names are correct > for the mails to be ordered chronologically, so nothing weird going on > there that would cause a prob. > I can't see any errors relating to this in the logs, but my logs a > several thousand lines per day so is there any particular error > message I should be looking for? A grep -i err doesn't show anything > interesting...
Try grepping for "Warning" also. I usually put error logs to a different file. That file should stay empty (except for Dovecot stop messages). > mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%u > mail_nfs_index = yes > mail_nfs_storage = yes Are you using NFS? With just one server or more? What NFS server?
