[Dovecot] bzip2 compression bug
Nikita Koshikov
koshikov at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 09:13:38 EEST 2009
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:08:43 -0300 (BRT)
fernando at dfcom.com.br wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I compressed many files using bzip2, but in some cases it crashes. I
> believe that it is related to dovecot indexes.
>
> How to reproduce:
>
> Inside a Maildir folder without any indexes yet, compress a message with
> bzip2 and tryes to access it.
>
> At my server is showed the error:
>
> Jun 24 00:18:20 maildev dovecot: IMAP(xxx at xxx): FETCH for mailbox Trash
> UID 1 failed to read message input: No such file or directory
> Jun 24 00:18:20 maildev dovecot: IMAP(xxx at xxx): Disconnected: BUG: Unknown
> internal error bytes=329/1050
>
> When I did the same with gzip compression it works as expected (opening
> the message and creating dovecot indexes).
>
> (version, 1.1.16)
>
Compression bzlib/bzip2 supported since version v1.1.2+, as wiki say:
Zlib plugin can be used to read compressed mbox and maildir files. Zlib plugin supports compression using zlib/gzip and bzlib/bzip2 (v1.1.2+).
> Best Regards,
> Fernando
>
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