[Dovecot] maildirsize corruption

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 18:21 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:32 +1100, Dean Manners wrote:
> > Using maildir++ with LDA and POP/IMAP we have been seeing intermittant
> > maildirsize corruption.  Where an operation will be prepended by a handful
> > of ASCI null characters ^@^@.
> 
> Is this a real problem? From the code:
> 
> 	/* We rely on O_APPEND working in here. That isn't NFS-safe, but it
> 	   isn't necessarily that bad because the file is recreated once in
> 	   a while, and sooner if corruption causes calculations to go
> 	   over quota. This is also how Maildir++ spec specifies it should be
> 	   done.. */
> 
> I guess I could make it recalculate the quota if it detects any errors
> in the file.

Looks like it handled those NUL bytes worse than I thought. Fixed:
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/007939.html

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