Thanks for your comments.
I didn't think I had anything else touching the mailbox files. I use Outlook Express
on a PC which uses pop3 and SquirrelMail which uses imap. Pine is installed on the
linux box, but I rarely use it (and I guess it's safe). I contempated installing
spamassassin a while back, but didn't think I actually did it. However, I do see a
process "spamd" running. Hmmm.
Further looking indicates that spamassassin has been installed and running for a long
time. I'll try killing it, deleting all messages in my inbox, and see what happens.
Do you know if spamassassin is based on the c-client library?
Funny thing is the first such message I see in the log was reported on Sept 26th at
1:30pm. I was gone for the week prior to that (got home the 27th). My point is that
I couldn't have altered the configuration - even unknowningly. Since that point, I
get the message in my log file everyday - sometimes multiples messages in a day.
I did see the following message in the same log report, which I don't recognize...
Did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA:
80.143.199.79 : 1 Time(s)
Could that be related?
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Crispin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Champion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: Message 186 UID 361 greater than last 189 ???
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Mark Champion wrote:
> > > I understand that message UID order is somehow mixed up, but I don't
> > > know how to fix it.
>
> You can't fix it. All you can do is prevent it from happening again.
>
> You are almost certainly using traditional UNIX mailbox format.
>
> Something other than [imapd | ipop3d | pine | other program based upon the
> c-client library] is manipulating your mailbox file(s). In the error
> message that you reported, the 186th message has a UID of 361. This is
> reasonable, except that the mailbox metadata reports that the highest
> assigned UID in the mailbox is 189.
>
> The c-client library always updates the "highest assigned UID" when
> adding a message with a UID. Consequently, something else put that
> message there.
>
> Perhaps you have spam filter software which, after a mailbox has been
> opened, goes through the mailbox and copies messages to another mailbox.
> If that spam filter is not based upon the c-client library, it may not
> know better than to copy the X-UID: header.
>
> The solution is to fix things so that whatever entity is playing with your
> mailbox file is forbidden to touch "old messages" which have a UID
> assigned.
>
> If Squirrelmail is accessing your mailbox file directly, see if it can be
> made to use POP3 or IMAP instead.
>
> -- Mark --
>
> http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
> Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
> Si vis pacem, para bellum.
