[Dovecot] mbox empty messages in Sent folder

[Diego Liziero]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Diego Liziero wrote:
>
>> It seems so,
>> I sent you privately the rawlog and the last part of a sent-mail mailbox.
>
> The interesting thing about that rawlog was that it shows the APPEND
> returning it saved the message with UID x, but in the mbox file there's no
> UID x, but there is the empty message with UID x+1.
>
>> Anyone besides me is seeing this? (random empty mails in Sent folder)
>
> I'm using mboxes all the time, never seen this..
>
> Perhaps if you put all processes through strace (-s 1000000) and when it
> again happens for some user send me the strace? Although I'd guess it shows
> that the message was properly written to the mbox file. The real question is
> then what truncates the mbox file..

Just sent to Timo the strace of the same mail sent twice, the fist
time appeared empty, the second time correctly written to sent-mail
folder.