On 6.4.2007, at 15.59, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
Apr 6 07:22:52 karst dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP (jaearick): mbox file /var/mail/j/jaearick was modified while we
were syncing, check your locking settingsPine coughed up an internal error, no core dump, and dovecot basically doubled the size of my mailbox by duplicating all of my messages again. What changed with file locking between rc27 and
rc28 to cause this? How to fix?
I added this check to rc28. Hmm. I guess it's possible that the check
doesn't work that great with NFS.
But what do you mean duplicated the messages? Same messages exist
multiple times in the mbox file? The only reason I can think of how
that could happen is if you expunged a lot of data from the middle of
the mbox, and then in the middle of the move that external
modification check cancelled the sync.
If that's not the case, maybe it really was something else than
Dovecot that went and duplicated the messages?