[afnog] pop3 errors on fedora core 3 - LF not found on mailbox

[Ezra Banoba]

On 9/13/05, Dr Paulos Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks for showing me formail. We did actually note that this error does 
> go away for
> an individual mailbox when we force recreation of the mailbox and then 
> append old
> mail to it.
> 
> However, this is not a scalable solution if one is managing kilos of 
> mailboxes as we
> do.



A small shell/perl script to run through all the mailboxes recreating them 
and appending the old mail will fix the problem.

Regards,
eZRA.

By the way, we have observed that when this error happens to a mailbox, then 
> the
> system fails to deliver new mail to the box and the user has problems 
> collecting
> mail. So this is a serious issue when you have kilos of mail boxes to 
> manage.
> 
> Is going back to RH9 the best solution?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paulos
> ======================
> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> Malawi SDNP Coordinator
> 
> 
> On 12 Sep 2005 at 15:32, Mohamadi ZONGO wrote:
> 
> > Dr Paulos Nyirenda a écrit :
> >
> > >We are seeing an annoying error on pop3 after we recently moved our 
> pop3 server to
> > >Fedora core 3. It appears in /var/log/maillog as:
> > >
> > >pop3(username): Error indexing mbox file /var/spool/mail/username: LF 
> not found
> > >where expected
> > >
> > >Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? It was not there 
> in RH9.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You can try this solution:
> >
> > $ formail -ds < username >> new_username
> > $ mv username old_username
> > $ mv new_username username
> >
> > (chown or chmod username to make sure the new file attributes is OK)
> >
> > a link from google on "LF not found where expected" error :
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-March/msg06482.html
> >
> > hope this help
> >
> > regards
> > --
> > mzongo
> >
> > >What is the solution?
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >Paulos
> > >
> > >
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