non-deletable zero length messages in usermin

  • umbrianet
  • 05/12/08
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Posted: Wed, 2010-09-08 05:30

Hi all, I have a strange problem in Usermin. I have several 'blank' messages (zero length, no subject, no date, no sender) in a user's inbox. I cannot open these messages and I cannot delete them: they have no id, so if I select one and click "Delete" I get error "No message selected", and if I click on it I get error "This message doesn't exist anymore". It's also strange that I only see these 0kb messages in Usermin: they are not showing up in Webmin > Server > Read User Mails or in Virtualmin, Edit Maibox, clicking on Inbox mail file.

I checked /var/log/maillog and /var/log/procmail.log, but found no error msgs. In /var/usermin/miniserv.error I only see the same error msgs showed in the web page, no additional info.

Thanks for any hint.

Daniele


Hi Daniele, That certainly

  • andreychek
  • 01/04/09
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  • Wed, 2010-09-08 10:38

Hi Daniele,

That certainly sounds odd! Does the user in question by chance have a full quota?

Also, I'd be curious if you were to look in that particular users home directory, look in the Maildir/new and Maildir/cur directories... do you see any files in there?

Each file should be an email... I'm curious if you see a bunch of blank files in there.

-Eric


Quota is ok and in the user's

  • umbrianet
  • 05/12/08
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  • Thu, 2010-09-09 05:27

Quota is ok and in the user's mailbox (Maildir/new and Maildir/cur) I see no files corresponding to the 0kb messages. The messages disappeared when I reordered the list (by date) (!) I have the latest version of Virtualmin Pro. So now the problem seems gone, but I don't have any idea why these 0kb messages appeared...

Daniele


I"m having the same issue

  • askewview
  • 06/14/10
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  • Fri, 2010-09-17 12:03

I"m having the same issue with the latest version of Virtualmin GPL.

Re-ordering the messages didn't seem to do anything.

These messages are some sort of remnant after deleting the messages inside Mozilla Thunderbird. It is accessing the same mailbox via IMAPS