Folks -
I've been using Dovecot for some time now, but have only recently upgraded to 1.0alpha4. I'm struggling to get my configuration right and I'm seeing some truly bizarre issues.
My Setup: Solaris 2.8 / Thunderbird / Procmail / Dovecot 1.0alpha4
My mail setup is only for me, so Dovecot runs at an odd port and under my userID. All my mail is in my home directory, which is on NFS (NetApp). The main mail receiver is a different machine which mounts my home directory.
Typical entry from .procmailrc:
:0
- ^(From|To|CC):.*@.*\
Highlights from dovecot.conf:
#default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.mail/Maildir:INDEX=/var/tmp/mario/dovecot default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.mail/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY
mmap_disable = yes
#lock_method = flock lock_method = fcntl #lock_method = dotlock
protocol imap { listen = *:2143 }
auth_worker_max_count = 0
auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb passwd { } }
When I run as above (INDEX=MEMORY), I have access to all my mail, but I'm seeing literally thousands of .nfs files created all throughout my .mail/Maildir directories, and Thunderbird periodically locks up. As the filesystem fills with useless .nfs files (I deleted 10000 from ONE mailbox directory this morning), everything gets really, really slow, and I suspect this contributes to Thunder bird's problem.
But, if I run with the INDEX on a local disk, many mailboxes will not load (the most critical ones, of course...), but also some do. My inbox will list messages, but cannot display any. Others won't even list messages.
I'm at a total loss how to proceed, here. I've tried everything I can think of to debug what's going on, but have gotten nowhere (well, I did discover the whole lock_method=fcntl trick).
I've tried enabling rawlog, but am just not familiar enough with IMAP to get help from those logs.
Here's what's happening in a typical mailbox:
% pwd /home/mario/.mail/Maildir/.SI2 % ls -al total 544 drwx--S--- 5 rvvk40 lowv 425984 Dec 2 14:42 ./ drwx--S--- 64 rvvk40 lowv 16384 Dec 2 14:43 ../ -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 15 Nov 16 07:16 .customflags -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:38 .nfs00986 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:40 .nfs08986 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 312 Dec 2 14:11 .nfs16686 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:32 .nfs1A886
-- 40+ deleted here for brevity --
-rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:39 .nfsE3986 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 312 Dec 2 14:38 .nfsEF886 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:26 .nfsF3886 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 312 Dec 2 14:32 .nfsF9886 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 312 Dec 2 14:17 .nfsFF686 drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 4096 Dec 2 07:58 cur/ drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 4096 Dec 2 07:58 new/ drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 4096 Dec 2 07:58 tmp/ % pwd /home/mario/.mail/Maildir/.SI2
Help!
Mario