Unmatched entries in logwatch - imap

The "logouts" are okay. I think they're coming from pure-ftpd. You can safely ignore them. I wish I knew why the server logs into its own ftp server all the time.

The reason I came to this thread, though, was to see what I could find out about your courier-imap index question. I noticed the same message while t-shooting a different Horde-related issue. Then, last night it came through my logwatch report, so it piqued my interest again.

I looked at my old server where I didn't have the issue & remembered that I "fixed" the error by simply:

Code:

touch /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/shared/index

This creates a zero-length file & gets rid of the errors. I did this back in June of last year & never had major probs ever since.

As best I can tell, that index file is used to link multiple Horde users to common "shared" mail folders. I could definitely be wrong in this, though, so I'd be interested in hearing what other people have to say about it.

Matt

 

P.S. - In case you hadn't realized it, you get that index message as soon as someone logs into Horde. "tail -f maillog" & then log into Horde & you should see it. After that, touch the file & the message should go away.

-- Matt