On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
Justin Piszcz ha scritto:
Package: dovecot-imapd Version: 1.2.9-1 Distribution: Debian Testing x86_64
Problem: See below.
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Looking further I found this (which is when the problem began to appear in the logs):
First time: Jan 2 09:33:25 l1 dovecot: IMAP(user): Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file /home/user/Mailbox at 10599
Due to:
2010-01-02 05:00:29 configure dovecot-common 1:1.2.9-1 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:29 status unpacked dovecot-common 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:29 status unpacked dovecot-common 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:29 status unpacked dovecot-common 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:29 status unpacked dovecot-common 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:29 status unpacked dovecot-common 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:29 status unpacked dovecot-common 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:29 status half-configured dovecot-common 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:31 status installed dovecot-common 1:1.2.9-1
2010-01-02 05:00:38 configure dovecot-imapd 1:1.2.9-1 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:38 status unpacked dovecot-imapd 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:38 status half-configured dovecot-imapd 1:1.2.9-1 2010-01-02 05:00:38 status installed dovecot-imapd 1:1.2.9-1
During an apt-get dist-upgrade..
Did dovecot 1.2.9 include this patch: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2009-December/015177.html
So now one sees the message, whereas before, no message was shown? Nothing to be concerned about?
Justin.
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Hi,
t> I am seeing this on one of my servers:
Jan 8 10:08:58 l1 dovecot: IMuser(user): Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file /home/user/Mailbox at 10558
I have never seen this before, and google yields no results except when this warning was added to the source code here: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2009-December/015177.html
The user has deleted all of the mail in the Mailbox but the problem persists.
Any ideas?
Justin.
Hi Justin, Does the problem persist? Does it cause glitches for the user? Does it cause some corruptions or it's just a line in your log? Is it reproducible?
I think it is some kind of corruption of the mailbox, but I found weird it persists after the deletion of all email. May be you should expunge deleted messages from the mailbox.
Kind regards,
Hi,
I believe it is due to a lock/race condition with the Mailbox format, when you have alpine open (accessing the Mailbox) and an external client, e.g. Outlook or thunderbird. Yes, when both clients access the mailbox it usually locks up Outlook or alpine.. I suppose the maildir format may be the better option but alpine has issue with that format.?
Justin.