Alpine inbox format error

[Brian W.]

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=557103

Brian

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Trond Endrestøl <
Trond.Endrestol at 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 freebsd
> > 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.
>
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