On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 23:53 +0200, Thomas Balsfulland wrote:
hello,
i am using dovecot 1.0.rc15-1~bpo1 (from backports.org) on an debian sarge machine as lda imapd and pop3d with postfix 2.1.5-9.
sometimes docvecot lda cannot write an mail to an existing mbox-file and the logfiles fills up with:
deliver(user1@domain.tld): "2007-04-22 23:17:32 "Error: Cached message offset 6937844 is invalid for mbox file /home/vmail/domain.tld/user1
You seem to be using maildir++ quota with mboxes. Does that actually work? I never intended it to work at least. :)
Anyway there have been a lot of mbox fixes since rc15. Also there has been one mbox+quota fix after v1.0: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-April/008722.html
With v1.0 + the above patch this invalid mbox offset error should never happen anymore.
40 lines from this per second and will never stop!
I'm not sure why it would do infinite looping though, although I do remember fixing one such problem with mboxes at some point.