[Dovecot] imap signal 6 crash with backtrace (1.2rc5)

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> ># zfgrep -h virus-al /var/log/OLD/2009-07-*/pop3d-imapd.log |grep
> >UIDVALIDITY
> >Jul  2 02:27:19 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Maildir /home/v/i/
> >virus-al/Maildir: UIDVALIDITY changed (1246493487 -> 1246494049)
> >Jul  2 22:25:34 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Maildir /home/v/i/
> >virus-al/Maildir: UIDVALIDITY changed (1246564263 -> 1246566306)
> >Jul 18 21:30:00 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Maildir /home/v/i/
> >virus-al/Maildir: UIDVALIDITY changed (1247941041 -> 1247944777)
> >That's all for last month
> 
> OK, that definitely means something's either deleting dovecot-uidlist
> files or changing that mailbox's index files in some way, which then
> causes the UIDVALIDITY changed errors and/or next_uid changed errors.
> Neither should really be happening.. I can always try to get those
> crashes fixed, but I think the underlying problem is some external
> script or something.

Could be, but as you can see the crash happens WAY WAY later.

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