[Dovecot] Re: mailbox corruption

[Yannick Majoros]

Kelly Sauke wrote:

>Wietse Venema wrote:
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>>Yannick Majoros:
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>>>>What else is accessing the mailbox files? Any scripts running around
>>>>that access mail without proper file locking, like scripts that
>>>>replicate mail to another box? 
>>>>
>>>>Whay file system is being used?
>>>>
>>>>If you can't figure out which is broken, then you'll have to use
>>>>maildir files.
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>>>No scripts. If amavisd-new is safe, then nothing else should access 
>>>mailboxes. Only via dovecot POP3/IMAP. Do you think it is worth to go 
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>>amavisd-new accesses mailboxe files, and what file locking
>>mechanism would that be using?
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>>	Wietse
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>For what its worth, I'm seeing the exact same corruption as Yannick is
>talking about and the only two pieces of software installed on my
>machine are postfix and dovecot.  One of those two is the culprit, not
>sure which one.
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 Yep, I would think the same. This is not an evidence, but a strong 
doubt: the same problem is still present after replacing MailScanner by 
amavisd-new. It could be that it happens less often, although, but I 
need some time to make real stats...

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