Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:49:49 -0700 From: "Brian W." <brian@brianwhalen.net> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Trond_Endrest=C3=B8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Alpine inbox format error Message-ID: <CADV=szVRfNAN_5A%2BzsWvUY-g=HyehsXAFQ=PtsdBAHQSuR4h-g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405080938410.27459@mail.fig.ol.no> References: <CADV=szX2fcEwOay7g-DWMeZO7CifU7td0ZdcJFHkceBPHGEREA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405080938410.27459@mail.fig.ol.no>
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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. | > +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+
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