On 03-06-16 08:20, aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi (Aki Tuomi) wrote:
On 30.05.2016 16:41, van der Kamp, John wrote:
Hello,
I'm testing dovecot with some setups, and one of them is with shared mailboxes. The test I wrote will create and delete mail using multiple connections to the same user and folder. Each connection makes a couple of mails, remembers the uid from APPENDUID, and will delete those emails again. At the end of the test I expect an empty folder.
This is not what happens. At the end I still have several mails in the folder. I lack insight in the dovecot source to tell exactly what's going on. I've tested this with different setups:
- local system user, connecting over localhost -> bug is present
- local system user, connecting over internet -> bug is present, but is harder to reproduce
- dovecot as proxy to another imap server -> bug is present In step 3, you can even setup a dovecot to be a proxy to another dovecot server.
From logging in the other imap server I've seen that a client command to the proxy like: TAG UID STORE 1:3 +FLAGS (\Deleted) TAG UID EXPUNGE 1:3 will be sent to the other imap server in 3 steps, one for each message. When running the test with multiple threads, that logging shows that some uids are never sent to the other imap server, and some uids are sent over different connections than they original were sent to. (Thread 1 deletes 1:3, Thread 2 deletes 4:6, the proxy of Thread 1 might expunge messages from Thread 2 and vice versa).
Attached is a python script which tests the behavior. The script expects a file named "testmail.eml" to upload to the imap server. I used an email which was about 75 kB. I tested using version: 2.2.22 (fe789d2). Let me know if I can help in any other way too.
John
Hi!
We tested with 2.2.24, and were unable to reproduce the error. Can you try again with 2.2.24?
Aki
Hi,
Sorry for the late reply. Didn't notice when this was picked up. I've tried again with out-of-the-box Ubuntu Xenial 16.04, which ships with 2.2.24. Here the problem is still present. I patched the packages with the commits Timo mentioned in another reply. That did not fix the problem the python script tries to reproduce.
I tried 2.2.25 on a Debian testing installation. This too is just out-of-the-box local users with mailbox in homedir configuration. I had to run the script a couple of times before it showed up again. So I guess things have been made better, but not flawless.
John