[Dovecot] Index corruption causes child process to die

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.10.2006, at 1.38, Juha Saarinen wrote:

> On 10/24/06, Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My recent migration from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot has been marred by
>> these errors:
>>
>> Oct 24 12:12:40 server dovecot: IMAP(juha): Fixed index file
>> ~user/Maildir/.Geekzone/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 431
>> -> 430
..
>
> This took care of the index corruption (touch wood):
>
> lock_method=dotlock
> mmap_disable=yes

Do you use NFS? If so, then at least mmap_disable is needed. If not,  
then it shouldn't really make a difference..

lock_method=fcntl should work with NFS if you're using lockd, and  
with non-NFS it should be working always..



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