[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.6 segfault in imap_fetch_begin

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 16 01:07:45 EEST 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 18:05 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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..

Oh, actually, that's about dovecot-uidlist files. They don't like much
if writing fails. Although I'm still not sure if those types of errors
should be happening..

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