[Dovecot] Errors and periodic corruption using 99.10.5 release with mbox

[Stephen K. Gielda]

At 09:20 PM 6/5/2004, James Moser wrote:
>I've seen the same thing...   in .4 we had blank lines at the top of the 
>file, which always seemed to fix themselves... however with .5 you get an 
>error stating the file is not in mbox format and it dies.  There are 
>usually three lines at the top, with only a few characters in the second line:
>
>(blank)
>    somegarbage here
>(blank)
> From blah at doh.com .....
>
>The error messages with .4 were:
>
>Jun  5 00:06:23 hostname pop3(username): Error indexing mbox file 
>/var/mail/username: LF not found where expected
>
>But with .5, they simply state the file is not in mbox format and fails.


This is exactly what I've seen too in regards to the corruption (both .5 
and .4).

/steve




>Stephen K. Gielda wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm seeing these errors in our logs periodically:
>>
>>file istream.c: line 135 (i_stream_skip): assertion failed: 
>>(stream->v_size == 0 || stream->v_offset + count <= stream->v_size)
>>
>>Timeout leak: 0x8069328
>>
>>Any idea on what may be causing these?  System is freebsd, format is mbox.
>>
>>I'm also seeing periodic corruption of mailboxes.  It's easily fixed 
>>because it's always a few stray lines of text left at the beginning of 
>>the mbox file above the From  I'm currently trying to find out more about 
>>what actions may cause it.
>>
>>/steve
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