[Dovecot] mbox empty messages in Sent folder

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 5:21 AM, Diego Liziero wrote:

> 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.

Maybe this helps? http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/8ab845d3c96d
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