[Dovecot] mailbox corruption by pop3 access
I have about 30 pop3 users at my dovecot server, and sometime there's mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/userid) are corrupt. Troubled mailbox contains unnecessary 2 lines on head of file. Example is follow...
.93C7E660--
From xxxxxx@xxxxx.com Tue Jan 16 19:29:21:2007
3rd and following lines has no plobrem. Maybe, this first line is last line of previous mail. But I don't know why it was leaved. At such cases, when user tried to get his mail by pop3 client on remote host, and close connection by server immidiate.
-ERR Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file Connection closed by foreign host.
Every time I delete 2 lines from his mailbox to restore on server console when it corrupt. Has anyone such problem?
OS: RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Dovecot version: 0.99.11-4.EL4 (RH official rpm)
On 2.2.2007, at 5.47, dovecot@quartzcrystal.org wrote:
I have about 30 pop3 users at my dovecot server, and sometime there's mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/userid) are corrupt. Troubled mailbox contains unnecessary 2 lines on head of file. .. Dovecot version: 0.99.11-4.EL4 (RH official rpm)
Yes, this is a known problem with 0.99.x version. I never figured out
why it happens. In 1.0rc versions the mbox code has been rewritten
and this doesn't happen anymore.
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Timo Sirainen