[Dovecot] Test environment question

[Stewart Dean]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 13:04 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
>   
>>> Sep 22 11:54:13 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): posix_fallocate() faile
>>> d: Protocol not available
>>>       
>
> See if this helps: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/ad13463328aa
>
>   
My apologies for not getting back to you...I was sick and out last week 
and am not exactly shining brightly this week :)

I rebuilt with the patch you specified.  I made sure that my imap 
session from my TBird client to my production (DC V1.0.15) server was 
shut down, that it was reconfigured NOT to periodically look for mail, 
and I have rechecked since then to make sure that there are no session 
in the PS table for it.  When I started up on my DC V1.1.3 test server, 
I got the following messages:
> Sep 30 13:24:13 egg mail:info dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.3 starting up
> Sep 30 13:24:26 egg mail:info dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<sdean>, method=P
> LAIN, rip=10.20.10.169, lip=192.246.229.31
> Sep 30 13:24:28 egg mail:info dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<sdean>, method=P
> LAIN, rip=10.20.10.169, lip=192.246.229.31
> Sep 30 13:24:30 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): mbox sync: UID inserted
>  in the middle of mailbox /var/spool/mail/sdean (646581 > 646564, seq=1125, idx_
> msgs=1126)
> Sep 30 13:24:31 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): mbox sync: UID inserted
>  in the middle of mailbox /var/spool/mail/sdean (646581 > 646564, seq=1125, idx_
> msgs=1126)
> Sep 30 13:24:33 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): posix_fallocate() faile
> d: File exists
> Sep 30 13:24:33 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): file_set_size() failed 
> with mbox file /var/spool/mail/sdean: File exists
> Sep 30 13:24:35 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): posix_fallocate() faile
> d: File exists
> Sep 30 13:24:35 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): file_set_size() failed 
> with mbox file /var/spool/mail/sdean: File exists
> Sep 30 13:25:37 egg mail:info dovecot: ssl-build-param: SSL parameters regenerat
> ion completed
> Sep 30 13:27:42 egg mail:info dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<sdean>, method=P
> LAIN, rip=10.20.10.169, lip=192.246.229.31
> Sep 30 13:30:28 egg mail:info dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<sdean>, method=P
> LAIN, rip=10.20.10.169, lip=192.246.229.31
I would assume that, when the test server started up, the index and such 
stuff it had from the last time it was run was grossly out of synch and 
that this is therefore just DC on the test server setting things right.

Since then, as I wrote a message, DC on the test machine coughed out an 
errmsg relating to the Drafts folder, which again makes sense as it also 
likely out of sync:
> Sep 30 13:49:25 egg mail:info dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<sdean>, method=P
> LAIN, rip=10.20.10.169, lip=192.246.229.31
> Sep 30 13:51:03 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): mbox sync: UID inserted
>  in the middle of mailbox /home/hcrc/sdean/mail/Drafts (9422 > 9403, seq=607, id
> x_msgs=651)
> Sep 30 13:51:04 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): mbox sync: UID inserted
>  in the middle of mailbox /home/hcrc/sdean/mail/Drafts (9422 > 9403, seq=607, id
> x_msgs=651)
> Sep 30 13:53:45 egg mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): Disconnected: Logged out byt
> es=73/3631
So there are two possibilities
1) That this just happens once (for any given folder), as long as the 
test DC server is the only one to ride heard on  the folders
and/or
2) even so, these messages shouldn't happen and something is wrong.

I will watch it carefully for a day and see if I can confirm that #1 is 
true........



I have attached my original note with its copies of the dovecot -n 
output for both machines
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