Hi list,
Overall, everything works fine, and all the emails are delivered without anything messing up. But then, from time to time, the transaction logs for some users become corrupted, meaning emails cannot be read at all from dovecot.
With a bit of a search on google, it seems to be a problem with locking on the transaction log. The individual files are fine - it's maildir, so the chances of 2 accesses on the same file are near impossible. But the problem seems to come when things get a bit busy, and inevitably, the transaction log tends to get corrupted all too often now for me to just go in and delete the log, and start afresh.
I've addressed the issue temporarily by putting the index in memory by the :INDEX=MEMORY as opposed to a static file. This isn't ideal, but it seems to save the system going up in arms.
Is there an alternative to using this system?
Ronald.
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