[Dovecot] Indexes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jan 11 06:46:36 EET 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 09:55 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 10:54 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> >   
> >> When something "bad" happens to the indexes, my e-mail client 
> >> (Thunderbird) reports an "unable to succeed" error on opening a 
> >> mailbox.  Leaving that mailbox and coming back works fine.  Is this 
> >> expected behaviour?
> >>     
> >
> > It's expected, but it's not expected that anything bad happens to your
> > indexes normally. What do the logs show as the reason?
> >
> >   
> I see a variety, but a sample:
> 
> Dec 31 11:09:26 bubba dovecot: IMAP(mgillespie at amfes.com): Corrupted 
> transaction log file 
> /var/mail/amfes.com/mgillespie/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: start_offset 
> (20200) > file size (20184)

What filesystem is this with? Looks like NFS caching issues.
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