Alex Walker wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:52:39PM -0400, Eric wrote:
>
>> This has happened to 3 of my users now. We do not permit external IMAP
>> or POP3 access; only Roundcube for these users. IMAP is served via
>> Dovecot 1. I'm on the most recent release of Roundcube.
>>
>
>
>> Three users now have had their inboxes completely wiped out. The first
>> two times I wrote it off that the user probably clicked their folder
>> and clicked Empty without really paying attention. Three, though, is a
>> magic number...
>>
>
>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>
>
> I have, yes - but I hadn't actually lost my inbox, it had just got
> corrupted somehow. I looked in the files on the server (/var/mail/auser
> in my case) and saw they still had content in them. I think to fix it I
> did the following...
>
> 1. Opened their inbox in mutt which seemed to load it fine although RC
> couldn't ('mutt -f /var/mail/auser')
> 2. Save all messages to a new folder (tag each with 't', then save all
> tagged with ';s' and select file '/var/mail/auser.new')
> 3. Then moved the old file somewhere as backup (mv /var/mail/auser
> /var/mail/auser.old
> 4. Move the new one into place (mv /var/mail/auser.new /var/mail/auser)
>
> It's a bit of a hack job, but it worked for me and I don't think I lost
> any messages.
>
I plan to migrate to Dovecot soon from Courier.
What is your exact version of Dovecot? What distribution?
--
Dennis
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