[Dovecot] record points outside file error with dovecot revision 9116:9ae55b68cf61

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Jonathan Siegle wrote:

>>
>> But of course there are no problems (well, some very rare random ones
>> maybe) having multiple processes accessing the same mailbox on the  
>> same
>> server. Ever since I wrote my imaptest tool (a few years ago?) I've  
>> been
>> heavily stress testing multiple connections modifying the mailbox  
>> at the
>> same time.
>
> Timo,
> 	Can you tell me what platform/filesystem you use for testing?

Linux/ext3 mainly. I also use Solaris/ufs for my own mails. Once in a  
while I also try OS X/HFS+.

> Oh and can you hint at what "bad things" may happen when I get the  
> error "record points outside file"?

When you get that error it's not that bad. Dovecot just deletes the  
cache file which can cause small slowdowns. More problematic is when  
there's a corruption that Dovecot doesn't detect and sends garbage to  
client.