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List:       dovecot
Subject:    Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot headers at start of text returned to KMail
From:       Barry Scott <barry.scott () onelan ! co ! uk>
Date:       2010-04-29 15:14:42
Message-ID: 201004291614.42579.barry.scott () onelan ! co ! uk
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On Thursday 29 April 2010 15:33:02 Mike Abbott wrote:
> > To recover from this error I think I need to:
> > 
> > 1. service dovecot stop
> > 2. rename all the mail files to have the S=nnnn match the size of the file on \
> > disk
> 
> > 3. remove all the dovecot.* files
> > 4. service dovecot start
> > 
> > Is this correct?
> 
> I believe so but I'm not an authority on this part.  Note that removing the \
> dovecot.* files has other side effects, like making your clients re-download all \
> the messages again, and losing any keywords. 
> If you instead just remove the X-Spambayes-Trained header (and any other headers \
> that might have been added after delivery) from the affected messages (using, e.g., \
> sed), you might be able to skip step 3.

Thanks for the confirmation. I follow steps 1 to 4 and I'm back working.

I though about rewriting every file but considered removing the dovecot files the \
lesser of two evils.

Barry


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