[Dovecot] 2.1: Error: Maildir filename has wrong S value, renamed the file from

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed Mar 21 17:52:45 EET 2012


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> > It's renaming itself to itself again?
> 
> Hmm. Yeah, this is a bit problematic for compressed mails. If the
> S=size isn't correct, Dovecot fixes it by stat()ing the file and using
> it as the size. And that's of course wrong. Also Dovecot can't simply
> remove the S=size, because the current Maildir code assumes that it
> always exists for compressed mails. There's no easy and efficient way
> to fix this.. Maybe you could just manually rename the files to have
> correct S=size? :) zcat file | wc should give the right size.

Right now the whole system is down because nobody can acces his/her
mails due to this. 

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