[Dovecot] Index corruption causes child process to die

[Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen]

Timo Sirainen wrote:

>>>>>> Nov  8 20:36:44 mail dovecot: IMAP(lrosa): Corrupted index file
>>>>>> /var/spool/mail2/lrosa/.Postfix/dovecot.index: Duplicate header
>>>>>> extension keywords
> 
> Wonder if rc17 fixes this?

Yes, rc17 appears to solve the problems. I've had no reports since I 
upgraded from rc13 to rc17 and turned off workarounds. 

>> FWIW: I've set "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no" as a workaround here,
>> and there's no discernable effect on performance.
>
> I think it's a workaround only because it slows down Dovecot enough so 
> this problem just doesn't happen anymore.

That sounds likely. Dovecot feels much faster after rc17 and without the
workarounds. 

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Daniel Mikkelsen
Copyleft Software AS