Ian Mortimer wrote:
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 19:40 +0200, Magnus Stenman wrote:
I have seen the same thing.
dovecot 0.99, CentOS 4, squirrelmail (not verified that it affects squirrel only users)
dovecot 0.99, RHEL4. It's not just affecting squirrelmail users here. Both pop and imap clients are affected. randomly (it seems) at an average of around 1 or 2 a day.
I usually just delete the extra line in vi.
That sounds slightly dangerous. Do you lock the Inbox while your doing that?
no. vi will warn me if the file has changed since reading it, that is good enough for me
In our case it's not just a single extra line. There's usually a couple of lines (blank and some with a few characters) before the first From line.
I checked (again) that both procmail (LDA) and dovecot are creating and honouring lock files. dotlocks at least seem to be working perfectly (and getting removed after 180s as configured in dovecot).
in my case the delivery agent is postfix virtual, but i suspect the problem occurs when dovecot is rewriting the mailbox
I've run out of ideas.
have since switched to dovecot 1.0, so far so good....
I'm getting desperate enough to try that also.
I use a slightly modified dovecot RPM from ATrpms.net
pretty painless migration and as a bonus you get better out-of-quota behavior and better logging (among other things)
/m