Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file
On 6/8/2009, Kenneth Porter (sh...@sewingwitch.com) wrote: Getting Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file on 1.2rc2 rc5 is the latest... you might wanna try with that first... -- Best regards, Charles
Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file
On Jun 7, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: Getting Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file on 1.2rc2 after transferring mail from an ancient 0.99.13 system. The first line of the file looks ok. Curiously, it's one of my archival folders of this list. Here's the first header from the top of the file: From tss at iki.fi Sat May 1 21:48:17 2004 .. It would be nice if the code that verified the mailbox format would log details about what it disliked. It's always only the From line that it doesn't like. Do you really have tss at iki.fi instead of t...@iki.fi? That's why it's not working. It's expecting: From single-word timestamp.
Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file
--On Monday, June 08, 2009 10:09 AM -0700 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: It's always only the From line that it doesn't like. Do you really have tss at iki.fi instead of t...@iki.fi? That's why it's not working. It's expecting: From single-word timestamp. That's what's in the file. It's possible I grabbed an archive from mailman and dropped it in the directory ages ago, as mailman obfuscates addresses like that. Perhaps 0.99 wasn't as fussy about the separator line and just looked for From at the beginning of a line. (Not saying fussy is bad. ;)) I can probably cook up a Perl regex to fix it but it's just a couple of list archives at this point so I'm not too worried about them. My biggest problem was that the mail client (Mulberry) was stopping it's new-mail scan over my hiearchy when it hit the bad folders, so I had to move them out of the tree.
Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file
--On Monday, June 08, 2009 11:05 AM -0400 Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: rc5 is the latest... you might wanna try with that first... Thanks. I'll do that as soon as Rawhide catches up. (If it takes too long, I'll patch their source RPM to use RC5.) I'm actually running with a couple patches from Mercurial while I waited for Timo's next RC, and it arrived right in the middle of my migration with my old server down and me furiously tweaking final settings to get things working.
Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file
On 4.4.2007, at 20.19, Jay Chandler wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On 28.3.2007, at 23.45, Jay Chandler wrote: Keep getting this error within Squirrelmail (and other clients) on one particular user's mailbox file: ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SELECT INBOX.Backup Reason Given: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file Do you really have mboxes in INBOX. namespace? Or is this just the mailbox's name? From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 10 11:55:54 2004 There's nothing wrong with this. Opening a mailbox beginning with this line works. And that error message comes only if the mbox file doesn't begin with a valid From-line. Nothing else matters after that. PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file
Jay Chandler wrote: Keep getting this error within Squirrelmail (and other clients) on one particular user's mailbox file: ... Anyone have any ideas? Only one user out of many is having this issue, but he's whiny... Try taking the physical mbox file, putting it on a client machine with Thunderbird in the profileMail/Local Folders/ directory, then allow Thunderbird to open/rewrite/save it back out. Then stick it back on your server and see if that fixes it... Or, maybe even do the above, create a *new* folder and dragdrop all the messages from folder A into folder B (so a fresh-write would have to happen), then put folder B back onto the server named as the original. TBird reads/writes regular old normal mbox files. Just some ideas, hth. -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
