[Dovecot] Unusual behaviour

[Mark Lidstone]

OK, last try.

Is it supposed to give the current time and date in the error message.
I've no problem with it giving an "internal error" message to the
client, but I am a little confused about the time being in there.
That's all I'm asking about.

Mark Lidstone
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Boothman [mailto:andrew at mux.org.uk] 
Sent: 20 August 2004 18:09
To: Dovecot list
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Unusual behaviour


Mark Lidstone wrote:
> I thought that Dovecot was supposed to handle that kind of thing? 
> Reading from the website:
> 
> 	"Any kind of crash is considered as bug and will be fixed - even
if 
> it happens only by deliberately poking the index files."
> 
> I've done it in the past by just creating the bare folders - they 
> appear in the IMAP folder list then when they're used Dovecot seems to

> create the sub folders anyway.
> 
> The issue I'm asking about here is, should the error message say 
> "Internal Error [date time]" rather than something useful?

Did Dovecot actually crash? Did it log a more sensible error message to 
syslog?

I think Dovecot quite often reports an "internal error" to the client 
but then writes a more sensible error message to syslog. Which is 
probably no bad thing as you may well not want clients to see detailed 
error messages - there's nothing they can do about it anyway.

Andrew