On 11/2/06, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 17:53 -0400, bofh list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our dovecot setup consists of two hosts running dovecot-1.0.beta9 with
> Maildir/indices stored on NFS(noac,actimeo=0 used).
>
> I am seeing these messages at times - but no real problems on the
> client side.  Is this something to worry about?
>
> dovecot: Oct 17 10:33:31 Error: IMAP(user): Corrupted index cache file
> mailstore/user/Maildir/.mail.incoming/dovecot.index.cache: invalid
> record size

1.0.beta9 is old. I've done several fixes to cache file handling since.

Anyway the cache corruption errors aren't too bad, since they're fixed
automatically and they won't show up to users at all.


FWIW, we are still seeing these index corruption errors in dovecot-1.0rc12.

dovecot: Nov 06 17:19:37 Error: IMAP(1): Corrupted index cache file mailstore/1/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 06 17:22:29 Error: IMAP(1): Corrupted index cache file mailstore/1/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 06 18:54:47 Error: IMAP(2): Corrupted index cache file mailstore/2/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 06 23:14:48 Error: IMAP(2): Corrupted index cache file mailstore/2/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 07 09:20:29 Error: IMAP(3): Corrupted index cache file mailstore/3/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 07 10:30:06 Error: IMAP(4): Corrupted index cache file mailstore/4/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size