On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:23 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:
Apr 22 00:08:34 host dovecot: IMAP(user): Fixed a duplicate: 1240289413.9181_0.host:2,S.lock -> 1240373314.P6717Q0M159857.host
Something's very wrong if .lock files are created to Maildir mail files. It looks as if the Maildir is somehow being used as a mbox or something else is very weird. Try to figure out what is creating those .lock files..
The only things we have that touch mail on that system are dovecot and procmail. We don't export /var/spool/mail, and this is a pretty minimal debian system install. Ie, no funky desktop indexing programs or the like.
The users affected have no immediate commonalities- no common clients, most are IMAP but 1-2 are POP, some were logged out after timeout while others logged out properly, etc.
The lock files are one possible problem, but it is a HUGE problem that Dovecot is converting them into root-owned zero-length emails!
Brett