[Dovecot] Wrong message information reported shortly after delivery

[Ron Avriel]

> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 08:21 -0800, Ron Avriel wrote:
> > If an IMAP fetch is issued some "short" time after a message was delivered
> > with dovecot deliver then dovecot reports wrong (zero) values
> > for that new message. Afterward, it reports the information OK.
> 
> What OS/filesystem do you use? I don't see how this is possible. The
> mails are first written to tmp/ directory and then they're atomically
> rename()d to the new/ or cur/ directory.
> 
> I also tested this myself, rapidly sending the same FETCH command 1000
> times/sec while delivering 40MB mails to the maildir. The size was
> always correct.


I'm using standard out of the box Redhat EL 4 with an ext3 filesystem.
Since I can reproduce it easily on different RHEL4 machines, tell me what additional information you'd like.

Thanks again,
Ron




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