[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache file

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 00:10 +0100, Diego Liziero wrote:
> >> dovecot: Feb 11 16:07:27 Error: IMAP(dumontj): FETCH for mailbox Sent
> >> UID 7139 got too little data: 11112 vs 11160
..
> It's really _rare_ and difficult to reproduce.
> Usually, it happens when a thunderbird user tells dovecot to store a
> mail with multipart mime attachments in a mbox folder (mostly Sent or
> Trash folder).
> 
> When this error appears, the last mail attachment is actually truncated.

Any idea if the saved data simply isn't written / is truncated, instead
of the following message overwriting it? i.e. has this happened to the
last message in the mbox file (with uid = next_uid-1 to make sure the
last message wasn't actually expunged)?

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