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Missing Permissions - Input/Output Error on maildir message

Offline jfarschman

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Missing Permissions - Input/Output Error on maildir message
« on: October 15, 2007, 05:46:58 PM »
Don't you just love a mystery,

Today one of our user ended up with 7 messages that should have been in other users mailboxes, but instead where in his ~/Maildir/cur directory.  He could not POP messages because he did not own them.  I moved these out and was left with this one message:

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?---------  ? ?        ?               ?            ? 1190748252.14706.mail:2,
Cannot cat, less, mv, rm or just about anything this message.  I ended up having to move the directory and rebuild it.

Anyone have any clues?   The user is a Mac user on OSX, but other than that a pretty ordinary user who has POP-ed and use webmail to check messages.
Jay Farschman
ICQ - 60448985
jay@hitechsavvy.com

Offline CharlieBrady

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Re: Missing Permissions - Input/Output Error on maildir message
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2007, 12:01:56 AM »
Anyone have any clues?

Looks like your filesystem might be corrupted to me. Shut down. Test RAM. Do full file system check on next reboot.