assertion failed: '!view->syncing' (Re: [Dovecot] Newbie question: shared folders means..?)

[Jeff Turner]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:07:44AM +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Jeff Turner wrote:
> 
> >The website says "Shared mailboxes aren't yet supported".  Does that mean
> >that one shouldn't have two mail clients (same username) accessing the
> >same IMAP account simultaneously?  Or that Dovecot doesn't support
> >distinct users accessing the same 'shared' Maildir box?
> 
> The latter one:
> 
> User A logins with account A, user B logins with account B - both cannot 
> share mailboxes.

Thanks - we have a few people using a shared 'support' account, and I
thought that might account for failed asserts I'm seeing every few
minutes:

dovecot: Nov 11 15:52:23 Error: child 8270 (imap) killed with signal 6
dovecot: Nov 11 16:03:05 Error: imap(support): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 168 (mail_index_view_sync_begin): assertion failed: (!view->syncing)
dovecot: Nov 11 16:03:05 Error: child 8283 (imap) killed with signal 6
dovecot: Nov 11 16:06:15 Error: imap(support): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 168 (mail_index_view_sync_begin): assertion failed: (!view->syncing)
dovecot: Nov 11 16:06:15 Error: child 8415 (imap) killed with signal 6
dovecot: Nov 11 16:27:54 Error: imap(support): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 168 (mail_index_view_sync_begin): assertion failed: (!view->syncing)

Most people are using Thunderbird to access the mailbox. Mail format is
Maildir. Has anyone seen this before?

I'm guessing it has something to do with the indexes getting out of
synch. Is it safe to delete the dovecot.index.* files to test this?

Also, mails are being delivered to the maildir via procmail. I assume
dovecot notices the extra files and updates the index accordingly? Or do
I need to use Dovecot LDA to keep indexes up to date?


Cheers,
Jeff