[Dovecot] IMP reading entire mailbox
Michael M. Slusarz
slusarz at curecanti.org
Tue Jun 9 21:39:46 EEST 2009
Quoting Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com>:
> Quoting "Timo Sirainen" <tss at iki.fi>:
>
>> On Jun 9, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Chris O'Regan wrote:
>>
>>> IMP is periodically checking this user's mail every five minutes. Each
>>> time it does, the his entire mailbox is being read. I initially thought
>>> it might be an indexing problem since I am also seeing messages such as
>>> this in the logs:
>>>
>>> Corrupted index cache file
>>> /local/data/dovecot/indexes/mail/X/XXXXXXXX/.imap/delivery.log/dovecot.index.cache: Broken MIME parts for mail UID
>>> 30880
>>
>> Is it always this same UID? How often does it happen? Every 5
>> minutes? Can you reproduce this manually somehow? If there's a way
>> to reproduce this, I'd like to get a copy of the mailbox. You can
>> put the mailbox through http://dovecot.org/tools/mbox-anonymize.pl
>> and hopefully it will then still break.
>>
>> Dovecot anyway detects that data in cache file is corrupted, so it
>> deletes the entire cache file. If IMP actually fetches something
>> like BODY or BODYSTRUCTURE for all messages, that causes all the
>> messages to be read since the cache was just deleted.
>
> IMP also has an option to preview messages. It reads the entire
> contents of the messages (should only be 20 or so for the 'current'
> INBOX window), and will display the first 200 characters or so of
> the email. Is it possible the numbers you're seeing reflect the
> total size of his most current 20 emails?
Unfortunately, with IMP 4.x we are limited to the API provided by
c-client/PHP imap module. This API is *horribly* inefficient and does
all sorts of terrible IMAP things that are
unnecessary/inefficient/embarassing. So it is conceivable that the
entire mailbox is scanned when a mailbox refresh occurs.
Good news is that IMP 5 fixes all this with a new IMAP library
(created, in part, with advice directly from Timo himself :)).
Although none of this explains why the dovecot cache is apparently
being corrupted.
michael
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