[Dovecot] Empty message headers (was Re: v1.1.6 released)

[Timo Sirainen]

On Dec 17, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

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> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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>>> 1)
>>> chown user file && mv file ~user/Maildir/new
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>> You mean the source and destination are on different filesystems?  
>> Then this is more or less expected, because then "mv" isn't an  
>> atomic operation.
>> Dovecot sees and reads the message before mv has finished writing  
>> it. That's the point of having the tmp/ directory. Mails should be  
>> written there first, then atomically renamed to new/.
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> Yes, therefore I tested the other cases, too, where the mail is  
> written to tmp first.

Then I didn't really understand your mail. You could reproduce the  
error with all 1) to 4) cases? But the rawlogs were only from the 1)  
case? Why not from a case that wasn't supposed to have been broken? :)

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