One mail user cannot log into squirrelmail

scrupul0us

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This is an odd one.

The error I get in PHP is:

Script timed out before returning headers: redirect.php, referer: https://domain.com/squirrelmail/src/login.php

Every other mail user on this domain can use SQmail no issue.

This one user CAN login to RoundCube.

I've checked things like the abook and pref files for permissions (which are spot on) and also ran the permissions fix for the mail users.

Alas when this user logs in, it sits for about 2 minutes and then throws an error 500 page and I see the above error in my error_log for Apache.

Any thoughts?
 
How much mail is in his mailbox? Maybe he has a corrupted file or something.
 
Its probably a corrupted file but might be hard to track down which one. I would try moving all the emails somewhere outside of the maildir folder and see if it works then.
 
Start by, under Roundcube, moving all emails in the INBOX to a new folder.

Then, through a shell login, delete all the Dovecot index files in all sudirectories of the user's mail directory.

Then Squirrelmail will likely be able to log in, and you can move the files back.

(For what it's worth, we find that most users prefer Roundcube :).)

Jeff
 
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