From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 16 18:49:58 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 301EAF8D for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f54.google.com (mail-la0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4B638E for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagg8 with SMTP id g8so48112765lag.1 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:49:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=swfiBqy5V6MKvwiRkJBQTlroQmM5WwDAEOVwvI0mOwM=; b=RlS+WQfFtEvCxgmMAy623ALs+mj7Nz422ozCMxPSsB2Ey4TFnCQmpJvtmbaBLTEb0Y OMYb+EJe+r7XXK7vfoZX5PofJBXlBozQEsmd9Ouo0Eo9uZ/hS5d6TWMk+titUyAfTAxb dY2gmJrApK4n8rxUFe0uaaCf6oM6MwCLigf5Fu6vN7YcTH1AmpERFE9z1h3Iwo2Ssajp JdVw1ceMIrjsQJo1/7yYYgfsUg42eOwjg6Z+wh7ExPvbKJtptX61Evzx1liW3re1irTX xdzjewaPoG3pb7U9GkO0tyhdw0ZNLijJc7Jy9/YdL0CtU/6ua/P8kOIew0WDHDcVdzbb jRhw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkiBj2KyXQrdWd53mXAB2R5zccOoXvymj0t4zvUNSsdNb46sNeainXOy8jkVnFoOMcZ3P3X MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.151.2 with SMTP id um2mr6494720lbb.31.1426531789578; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.110.134 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:49:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [140.239.2.162] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:49:49 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Alpine inbox format error From: "Brian W." To: =?UTF-8?Q?Trond_Endrest=C3=B8l?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:49:58 -0000 Migration of some sort is clearly going to happen. I have been dealing with this intermittently and it seems the debian folks are also. I didnt know that uw-imap was so totally ignored.. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D557103 Brian On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Trond Endrest=C3=B8l < Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2014 13:55-0700, Brian W. wrote: > > > Does anyone know what causes the alpine error inbox not in valid format= ? > A > > few times a year my wife gets this problem while I never do on my freeb= sd > > with postfix server. > > I've seen mailbox corruption with imap-uw on i386 when the mailboxes > reach a certain size. I'm not sure if the limit is higher on amd64. > > The corruption occurs at the beginning of the mailbox, with the > remaining messages being largely intact. You might need to perform > some surgery with dd or some other tool to skip the corrupted section > and extract the good messages to a new file. > > This corruption might be due to a buffer/integer overflow somewhere in > c-client. > > The above is probably a good enough reason to migrate to the maildir > format or at least trim your mailboxes regularly to avoid corruption. > > -- > +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ > | Vennlig hilsen, | Best regards, | > | Trond Endrest=C3=B8l, | Trond Endrest=C3=B8l, = | > | IT-ansvarlig, | System administrator, | > | Fagskolen Innlandet, | Gj=C3=B8vik Technical College, Norway, = | > | tlf. mob. 952 62 567, | Cellular...: +47 952 62 567, | > | sentralbord 61 14 54 00. | Switchboard: +47 61 14 54 00. | > +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+