[Dovecot] exim/kmail vs. dovecot

[Zane C.B.]

I have found getmail+sieve works a lot nicer. Then just use kmail as
a IMAP client.

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 18:45:22 +0100
Kristian Koehntopp <kris at koehntopp.de> wrote:

> 
> I am using exim via dovecot_deliver to store messages in Maildir in
> my $HOME. I am using kmail to retrieve stuff. Unfortunately,
> something in my data crashes dovecot.
> 
> I was using 1.0.rc14 from opensuse, but downloaded and installed
> 1.0.8 from the site.
> 
> Here is the crash:
> 
> 
> Dec  5 18:05:09 h743107 dovecot: IMAP(kris): file
> mail-index-transaction.c: line  629
> (mail_index_update_flags_range): assertion failed: (seq1 <= seq2 &&
> seq1 > 0) Dec  5 18:05:09 h743107 dovecot: child 13896 (imap)
> killed with signal 6 Dec  5 18:05:09 h743107 dovecot: IMAP(kris):
> Raw backtrace: imap [0x8006cf7d] ->  imap [0x8006ce58] -> 
> imap(mail_index_update_flags_range+0x194) [0x8004d034] -> 
> imap(mail_index_sync_begin+0x5c9) [0x8004fb79] -> 
> imap(maildir_sync_index_begin+0x61) [0x80021c71] -> imap
> [0x8002350a] -> imap(maildir_storage_sync_init+0x56) [0x80023646]
> -> imap(mailbox_sync_init+0x16) [0x8005d566] ->
> imap(imap_sync_nonselected+0x28) [0x8001b838] ->
> imap(_cmd_select_full+0xd7) [0x80012c47] -> imap(cmd_select+0x25)
> [0x80012e25] -> imap [0x800143ea] -> imap[0x8001446c] ->
> imap(_client_input+0x7d) [0x80014bcd]
> ->imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x127) [0x80073987]->
> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80072ac8] -> imap(main+0x518)
> [0x8001d898] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7e8d02c]
> -> imap[0x8000f0c1]
> 
> I took the liberty to syslog() the seq numbers before the assert
> and indeed
> 
> h743107:/etc/dovecot # grep "imap: seq1" /var/log/messages | head -3
> Dec  5 18:30:18 h743107 imap: seq1 1 seq2 1
> Dec  5 18:30:18 h743107 imap: seq1 1 seq2 1
> Dec  5 18:30:18 h743107 imap: seq1 1 seq2 1
> h743107:/etc/dovecot # grep "imap: seq1" /var/log/messages | awk
> '($9 < $7) { print  }'
> Dec  5 18:30:42 h743107 imap: seq1 28 seq2 16
> Dec  5 18:32:43 h743107 imap: seq1 28 seq2 16
> 
> What exactly is broken here and how can I fix that?
> 
> Kris
> 
> -- 
> Kristian =?iso-8859-15?q?K=F6hntopp?= <kris at xn--khntopp-90a.de>