[Dovecot] Test environment question

[Stewart Dean]

I have a call open to IBM with their Compiler group on this to see if 
this can't be fixed right.  A side question: how come is it that this 
happens when the session starts up and reoccurs periodically for the 
first day or so...and then not again unless and until those imap process 
sessions are closed out


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:33 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
>   
>> I am seeing posix_fallocate and file_set_size errmsgs in the mail syslog, but
>> see a pattern:
>>
>> 1) They only happen with the /var/spool/mail inbox NOT with any of the /home
>> folders and appear to be happening every 10 minutes from the time I started DC
>> (9AM, 10/1/98) until 11AM, 10/2...and then ceased
>> The every ten minute message sets looked like this:
>>   > Oct  1 22:30:31 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): posix_fallocate()
>> failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>     
>
> The main problem here is that posix_fallocate() is broken in your AIX
> (v1.0 doesn't even try to use it). My previous patch attempted to make
> Dovecot detect this and silently fallback to not using it, but
> apparently it can fail in more ways. I thought about adding another
> check for EAGAIN, but perhaps posix_fallocate() just returns the
> previous errno so it can't be checked that way. So I moved the check to
> configure instead:
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/12565ef10d1c
>
> Alternatively you could just remove HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE from config.h
> after running configure. Or yet another way would be to try to find out
> if it's already been fixed in AIX. This looks related:
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY77112
>
>   
>> 3) However, then there was the following:
>> a) If I used webmail, which accessed the production server and got the indices
>> on my test server out of sync, I got this error message from in the mail syslog
>> on my test server:
>>     
>>> Oct  3 12:20:23 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): mbox sync: UID inserted
>>>  in the middle of mailbox /var/spool/mail/sdean (648818 > 648046, seq=1153, idx_
>>> msgs=1187)
>>>       
>
> v1.1 also has a bug that can cause this, although normally it should be
> visible only when index files aren't being used, or they're out of sync
> for some reason. This'll fix it:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/a5bf7e12f3cc
>
>   
>>> Oct  3 12:44:58 egg mail:info dovecot: imap-login: Maximum number of connections
>>>  from user+IP exceeded: user=<sdean>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.20.10.169, lip=192.24
>>> 6.229.31
>>>       
>> Turns out I had 10+ sessions, one back from yesterday, so I killed them all and
>> could get mail, but...about six minutes later, I had the two posix_fallocate and
>> file_set_size errmsgs again after not having any for a day.  So something about
>> new connections maybe causes this?
>>
>> Any ideas why:
>> a) I am having leftover IMAP sessions on my test server?  This doesn't happen on
>>    my production DC V1.0 server
>>     
>
> Are you sure? Perhaps you just didn't notice them since v1.0 didn't have
> any limits to how many were allowed? I think it's more likely that the
> client(s) really just left that many connections. So the choices are:
>
> a) Increase mail_max_userip_connections setting.
>
> b) Figure out where the sessions are from and see if you can do
> something about them on the client side. In Thunderbird there's a
> setting which specifies how many connections it can use.
>