[Dovecot] dovecot cloning mails?
Andreas Schneider
mail at cynapses.org
Sat Oct 6 11:37:47 EEST 2007
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 00:41 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a strange issue here. I have a large message of a svn commit and the
>> message is cloning itself more and more. I've deleted it several time
>> completely but it doesn't go away.
>
> Find the duplicated message files in maildir and check their hard link
> count.
>
> If hard link count is more than one, it's most likely your IMAP client
> that's doing the duplication by COPYing the message. You can verify this
> with e.g. rawlog.
>
> If hard link count is 1, then the message is probably being redelivered
> for some reason. Check the received headers to see if they're different.
>
Hello,
the problem was postfix. The message was always delivered by the local postfix.
Thanks for the hints.
-- andreas
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