[Dovecot] mailbox corruption

[Yannick Majoros]

Hello,

 Here is the description of a problem we habe been having for some time. 
Originally posted on the postfix-users mailing list, but no solution 
found to date.

>>>> We have been having problems with our mail system for a couple of
>>>> months. Every now and then, some mailboxes get corrupted: a
>>>> half-truncated message, usually without headers, is at the beginning
>>>> of the mailbox, causing it to become unaccessible.
>>>>
>>>> For information, we use:
>>>>
>>>> - fedora core 4
>>>> - postfix-2.2.2-2 rpm
>>>> - dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4 rpm
>>>> - mailscanner-4.36.4-1 rpm
>>>>  
>>>>       
>>>
>>> This ^^^^^^^^^^   is probably your problem.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>
> I wouldn't be so quick to blame mailscanner.  I have fc4, postfix rpm
> and dovecot.  Nothing else and I get the same corruption he is talking
> about.
>
>  
>
Ok, I removed MailScanner and I still have the very same problem. 
Locking _does_ work for postfix and dovecot (discussed with Wietse, 
partly by mail).

Any idea? As an alternative, is there a way of handling the problem 
better? Dovecot just locks on these corrupt mailboxes :-/ I didn't try 
Dovecot 1.0, as it is alpha and I don't have any package for that anyway 
(production system :-/ ).

Thank you,

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