IMAPD: BUSY state: terminated abnormally

[Andrew Morgan]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Michael Plate wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have problem with a mailbox of one user:
>
> trying to select a mailboxs ends up in:
>
> master[1100]: service imap pid 3135 in BUSY state: terminated abnormally
>
> I tried to reconstruct the mailbox, but this did not help.
>
> Even deleting and creating an new one (same name of cause) still results
> in that problem. lmtpunix can not deliver to the box.
>
> Version is 2.2.13, no stuff relies on Berkeley DB (mostly skiplist).
> The server had a crash a week ago, but the fsck (xfs) did not mention
> any problem.
> We are using saslauthd and winbind to auth against ADS and and an
> Openldap used for some users via PAM. Changing the user from ADS to the
> local LDAP makes no changes..
>
> Any ideas, please ?

Have you checked that the user's "seen" file is not corrupt?  If you are 
trying to recreate the mailbox from scratch, make sure that the "seen" 
file is removed as well.

 	Andy