[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.6 segfault in imap_fetch_begin

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 16 01:05:47 EEST 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 13:06 -0700, Brandon Davidson wrote:
> Yes, we've got a pool of servers with Maildir on NFS with quotas
> enabled. Occasionally the users will run out of space and the indexes
> will get corrupted or out of sync. Our Helpdesk staff will increase
> their quota or help them delete things, and  Dovecot logs a stream of "
> Expunged message reappeared" and "Duplicate file entry" messages as it
> straightens things out. This is a fairly common occurrence given the
> size of our user base, so I'm assuming this is the root cause... but
> this is the first time I've seen Dovecot crash as a result.

Well, none of that should be happening.. I guess I'll try some day again
how random write failures to indexes will behave and if I can reproduce
any of this. I last tried that with v1.0 or v1.1 and fixed all the
related bugs.

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