[Dovecot] corrupted index?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 18:02 -0800, Gary Funck wrote:
> We're seeing the following sporadically in
> the log file (single line broken into separate
> lines for readability):
> 
> Corrupted index cache file 
> /home/user/mail/.index/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache:
> invalid record size

Try if this happens often with stress testing:
http://imapwiki.org/ImapTest

> Is this issue anything to worry about?

Not really. Those errors are invisible to clients and the cache file
gets fixed automatically. More probablematic is if Dovecot doesn't
notice that the file is broken and returns garbage to client.
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