Hello,
Here is the description of a problem we habe been having for some time. Originally posted on the postfix-users mailing list, but no solution found to date.
We have been having problems with our mail system for a couple of months. Every now and then, some mailboxes get corrupted: a half-truncated message, usually without headers, is at the beginning of the mailbox, causing it to become unaccessible.
For information, we use:
- fedora core 4
- postfix-2.2.2-2 rpm
- dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4 rpm
- mailscanner-4.36.4-1 rpm
This ^^^^^^^^^^ is probably your problem.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame mailscanner. I have fc4, postfix rpm and dovecot. Nothing else and I get the same corruption he is talking about.
Ok, I removed MailScanner and I still have the very same problem. Locking _does_ work for postfix and dovecot (discussed with Wietse, partly by mail).
Any idea? As an alternative, is there a way of handling the problem better? Dovecot just locks on these corrupt mailboxes :-/ I didn't try Dovecot 1.0, as it is alpha and I don't have any package for that anyway (production system :-/ ).
Thank you,
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Yannick Majoros http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~majoros Informaticien AUTO-INMA/FSA/UCL