[Dovecot] PDF corruption issue

[Timo Sirainen]

I think the main question here is if this problem is specifically with
PDFs, or if you're just not sending other attachments as much? v1.1 also
does have some mbox bugs that will be fixed in v1.1.8 (I think I'll do
the release now).

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 11:58 -0800, Michael Dunne wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Thanks to everyone that replied. I have not been able to isolate the  
> cause, has this happened to anyone else?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Michael Dunne wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have several users reporting that PDF attachments are coming in  
> > corrupted. They are using either thunderbird or outlook on windows  
> > xp. I have flushed the cache files for the users, but the problem  
> > still persists. Could anyone offer some troubleshooting tips?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> >
> > Below is my version and config.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > dovecot --version
> > 1.1.7
> >
> > dovecot -n
> > # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
> > Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full  
> > load (more than 1792). Either grow the limit or change  
> > login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings
> > # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux  
> > Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
> > base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
> > log_path: /var/log/dovecot
> > listen: [*]
> > ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> > login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> > login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> > login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
> > login_max_processes_count: 384
> > login_max_connections: 384
> > max_mail_processes: 1024
> > verbose_proctitle: yes
> > first_valid_uid: 10
> > mail_privileged_group: mail
> > mail_location: mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> > mail_debug: yes
> > mail_full_filesystem_access: yes
> > mmap_disable: yes
> > mail_nfs_index: yes
> > lock_method: dotlock
> > mbox_read_locks: dotlock
> > mbox_write_locks: dotlock
> > mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> > mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> > mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> > mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
> > mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
> > mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3
> > mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 25
> > imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep
> > imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep
> > imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
> > namespace:
> >  type: private
> >  separator: /
> >  inbox: yes
> >  list: yes
> >  subscriptions: yes
> > namespace:
> >  type: private
> >  separator: /
> >  prefix: mail/
> >  hidden: yes
> >  subscriptions: yes
> > namespace:
> >  type: private
> >  separator: /
> >  prefix: ~/mail/
> >  hidden: yes
> >  subscriptions: yes
> > namespace:
> >  type: private
> >  separator: /
> >  prefix: ~%u/mail/
> >  hidden: yes
> >  subscriptions: yes
> > auth default:
> >  mechanisms: plain login digest-md5
> >  verbose: yes
> >  debug: yes
> >  passdb:
> >    driver: ldap
> >    args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
> >  userdb:
> >    driver: ldap
> >    args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
> >  socket:
> >    type: listen
> >    client:
> >      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
> >      mode: 432
> >      user: postfix
> >      group: postfix
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