Hi, We have the same problem -- A mix folder with several empty messages in them. The subject and header information shows up fine with imapd 2007e, but when we look at the messages, there isn't any data in them.
We can use alpine to directly read the e-mails, and the e-mail body/data shows up. We can use mailutil to convert them back to unix format, then use mixcvt to convert them again in to mix format to fix the problem. We've tried mixrbld to fix this mix folder, and get lots of "UID ran backwards" messages, but it does not fix the problem. mixdfix doesn't do anything. The mail server is a Solaris 10 computer. The mix folder is on a local filesystem. Is there better fix then converting back to unix, then back to mix? Thanks, Cheryl On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:08:58PM -0400, Jimmy Dorff wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to better understand what caused a problem today.. and why what > I did "fixed" it. > > A user reported than some messages in their INBOX would open as empty. > Their client was Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 and later 2.0.0.21. Client was > rebooted/restarted/updated, it made do difference. There were some > messages which would open without any error, but display no message > content. Other messages displayed normally. > > The server is CentOS 5.3 running uw-imap 2007e from EPEL. I've built > mixdfix and mixrbld myself.. actually against 2007d if that makes any > difference. There were no imapd errors, apart from the "Unexpected > client disconnect, while reading line" which seems to be omnipresent. > > INBOX is in ~/mail/INBOX and is in mix format. "mailutil check" worked > fine, as did "mailutil prune INBOX 'before 1-jan-1970'". Looping across > all the "data" files was OK, mixdfix gave "no repair needed" for each file. > > Looking at the files, I can see that the content of the e-mails is > present for the mail that is "empty" on the client. > > Running "mixrbld" gave a number of "UID ran backwards" messages. > Swapping the ".mixindex" and ".mixindex-rebuild" made no difference in > the client behaviour. > > What "fixed" the problem, was using mailtuil to copy the mailbox as a > mbx file, then using mixcvt to convert it back. After that, the client > displays the full content for any messages which is selected, esp those > that were problematic before. > > Any ideas on what was wrong ? I still have saved copies of everything if > helpful. > > Cheers, > Jimmy > _______________________________________________ > Imap-uw mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw -- Cheryl Southard [email protected] _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
