[Dovecot] file name missing component in error message
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Fri Feb 13 02:24:59 EET 2009
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:12 -0600, Mike Abbott wrote:
> > Are you using deliver?
>
> Yup. The corrupted files actually contain dot-lock data
> (pid:hostname) followed by a bunch of nulls. For instance, a mail
> file with an S=3368 flag in the file name contains
> "12345:mail.example.com" (22 bytes) followed by 3346 nulls. I'm
> unfamiliar with how dovecot uses dot-lock files; is this more likely
> to be dovecot's fault or a disk corruption?
Sounds more like disk corruption. Mail files start empty and pid:host is
never written to them at any point.
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