[Dovecot] Mbox corruption - Inbox beginning with 'FFrom' or 'FrFrom'

[dalevizo]

Thanx I'll try the patch as soon as possible and I'll let you know.
It is indeed very rare. We're only seeing 4-5 corruptions in about 13
million logins per day.
I've been trying to convince our design team that we should move to
maildir, but the truth is that it's quite a change, and we're way too
busy to deal with everything else AND a migration from mbox to maildir.

D.

On Mon 24/06/2013 13:16, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 19.6.2013, at 16.00, Dimos Alevizos <dalevizo at otenet.gr> wrote:
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> > we're having some problems with our dovecot setup.
> > I've seen similar problems in the mailing list some years ago but alas wasn't able to find a solution.
> > 
> > Our setup is as follows :
> > An MX farm (postfix) sends mails via LMTP to a director farm (dovecot 2.1.12) which proxies pop3/imap/lmtp traffic to a dovecot farm (dovecot 2.1.16).
> > All mailboxes and indexes are on NFS and all servers are Centos.
> > 
> > The problem is that at times we see mailboxes (all of them are in mbox format) beginning with FFrom or FrFrom and of course dovecot says it's not a valid mbox file.
> 
> This is quite an old bug, but it happens rarely enough that I haven't been able to reproduce and fix it. Actually people hadn't complained about it for a long time now, so I had assumed it had somehow gotten fixed already.
> 
> With the attached debug patch it should crash instead of (completely) corrupting the mbox file. Debugging the resulting core file with gdb could be useful in figuring this out.
> 
> Although I wouldn't recommend mbox format for any big installation anyway..
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