[Dovecot] corrupted transaction log error resulting in multiple deliveries

Justin McAleer justin at fehuq.com
Mon Mar 19 13:56:31 EET 2007


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:14 -0400, Justin McAleer wrote:
>   
>> Justin McAleer wrote:
>>     
>>> ...
>>> Mar 16 12:51:15 node7 dovecot: IMAP(justin): Corrupted transaction log 
>>> file /var/indexes//j/ju/justin/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log: file_seq=1, 
>>> min_file_offset (63380) > max_file_offset (24) 
>>>       
>> Sorry to self-reply, but I just noticed that the domain part of the path 
>> is being left out of those log entries. The path should be 
>> /var/indexes/domain/... it's just // in those log entries though. Don't 
>> know if that's a logging error or something more significant.
>>     
>
> It's not a logging error. If there are two justins in different domains
> they're now using the same index files and that'll cause problems.
>
>   

Timo, were you able to recreate the corruption/temporary failure scenario?


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