[Dovecot] mail-filter always results in corrupted indexes

martijn.list martijn.list at gmail.com
Sat Dec 14 18:49:18 EET 2013


It turns out that I was ding it wrong. The mail filter should return the
exact same message as it was received including CR/LF endings. After
some changes of my code it works.

Kind regards,

Martijn


On 12/14/2013 04:19 PM, martijn.list wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experimenting with the mail-filter plugin but whenever I add
> anything to a message, it always results in an corrupted cache:
> 
> from the logs:
> 
> Dec 14 16:09:55 ciphermail-webmail dovecot:
> imap(martijn=djigzo.com at ciphermail.private): Error: Corrupted index
> cache file
> /var/vmail/martijn=djigzo.com at ciphermail.private/dovecot.index.cache:
> Broken physical size for mail UID 76
> Dec 14 16:09:55 ciphermail-webmail dovecot:
> imap(martijn=djigzo.com at ciphermail.private): Error: read() failed:
> Invalid argument
> Dec 14 16:10:02 ciphermail-webmail dovecot:
> imap(martijn=djigzo.com at ciphermail.private): Error: Cached message size
> smaller than expected (773 < 777)
> Dec 14 16:10:02 ciphermail-webmail dovecot:
> imap(martijn=djigzo.com at ciphermail.private): Error: Maildir filename has
> wrong S value, renamed the file from
> /var/vmail/martijn=djigzo.com at ciphermail.private/cur/1387033802.M114583P9631.ciphermail-webmail,S=773,W=791:2,
> t
> 
> A do-nothing filter that just sends the input to the output works but
> whenever I add something trivial to the message, the cache is always
> corrupted.
> 
> I using Dovecot 2.2.9.1 (from the deb archives).
> 
> I use the following trivial test to add some XXX chars and and later
> remove them.
> 
> In mail-filter.sh I append some chars and in mail-filter-out I filter
> these chars out (this is just a test)
> 
> cat > /tmp/dovecot-in.txt
> 
> echo "XXX" >> /tmp/dovecot-in.txt
> 
> cat /tmp/dovecot-in.txt
> 
> mail-filter-out:
> 
> cat > /tmp/dovecot-out.txt
> 
> sed -i /XXX/d /tmp/dovecot-out.txt
> 
> cat /tmp/dovecot-out.txt
> 
> 
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Martijn Brinkers
> 


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