[Dovecot] FETCH for mailbox XXX UID XXX got too little data.
Hi Timo,
I am receiving the above error in dovecot's logs, here's how it looks like:
dovecot: Aug 05 19:52:19 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<XXXXXXXXXXXX>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Aug 05 19:53:36 Error: IMAP(XXXXXXXXXXXX): FETCH for mailbox Bulk Mails UID 32 got too little data: 9199 vs 39532 dovecot: Aug 05 19:53:36 Info: IMAP(XXXXXXXXXXXX): Disconnected: Disconnected
When I attempted a telnet to the IMAP port, a fetch body[text] of the message begins with a partial portion of the Received headers:
dsl-146-173-81.clt.bellsouth.net (72.146.173.81) by mx6.pacific.net.sg with SMTP; 1 Aug 2007 01:48:14 -0000
and I get abruptly disconnected: Connection to localhost closed by foreign host.
May I know what could have gone wrong? To protect the user's privacy, I will be e-mailing you the actual bad e-mail in a separate e-mail.
Thanking in advance.
Cheers.
Following this is a partial transcript of the IMAP transaction:
a1 fetch 32 full
- 32 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "26-Jul-2007 00:35:20 +0800" RFC822.SIZE 40598 ENVELOPE ("Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:22:09 +0800" "ADV: Empowering Your Presentation Skills" (("Personal Development Workshops" NIL "enews" "JuzEvents2.com")) (("Personal Development Workshops" NIL "enews" "JuzEvents2.com")) (("Personal Development Workshops" NIL "enews" "JuzEvents2.com")) ((NIL NIL "XXXXXXXXXXXX" "pacific.net.sg")) NIL NIL NIL "004e4411357e78a1b6eec83d00114028@juzevents2.com") BODY ("text" "html" ("charset" "gb2312") NIL NIL "base64" 39532 508)) a1 OK Fetch completed. a1 fetch 32 body[text]
- 32 FETCH (BODY[TEXT] {39532} dsl-146-173-81.clt.bellsouth.net (72.146.173.81) by mx6.pacific.net.sg with SMTP; 1 Aug 2007 01:48:14 -0000 Received: from NHGF ([10.161.42.56]) by adsl-146-173-81.clt.bellsouth.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id i154842195219s7Ho019018 for XXXXXXXXXXXX@pacific.net.sg; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:48:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from espainolax_6666@yahoo.es) Message-ID: 005801c7d3de$046dbe90$51ad9248@NHGF From: "espainolax_6666" espainolax_6666@yahoo.es To: XXXXXXXXXXXX@pacific.net.sg Subject: soggy fighter pilot Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:45:38 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0055_01C7D3BC.7D1C7D80"; type="multipart/alternative" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138
*** blah *** Connection to localhost closed by foreign host.
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:03 +0800, Tan Shao Yi wrote:
dovecot: Aug 05 19:53:36 Error: IMAP(XXXXXXXXXXXX): FETCH for mailbox Bulk Mails UID 32 got too little data: 9199 vs 39532
This means that Dovecot thought the message had 39532 bytes. It either looked this up from dovecot.index.cache file or from the ,S=39532 part in maildir filename. But when the message was being read, EOF was found after 9199 bytes.
So, does the maildir filename have the ,S= part? If yes, remove it and figure out why it was wrong to prevent this in future. Otherwise delete dovecot.index.cache and see if it helps. Would be nice to figure out why that would happen too..
It would also be nice if Dovecot fixed this situation itself, but unfortunately it's not very simple with the current code and so far there haven't been many complaints.
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:03 +0800, Tan Shao Yi wrote:
dovecot: Aug 05 19:53:36 Error: IMAP(XXXXXXXXXXXX): FETCH for mailbox Bulk Mails UID 32 got too little data: 9199 vs 39532
This means that Dovecot thought the message had 39532 bytes. It either looked this up from dovecot.index.cache file or from the ,S=39532 part in maildir filename. But when the message was being read, EOF was found after 9199 bytes.
So, does the maildir filename have the ,S= part? If yes, remove it and figure out why it was wrong to prevent this in future. Otherwise delete dovecot.index.cache and see if it helps. Would be nice to figure out why that would happen too..
It would also be nice if Dovecot fixed this situation itself, but unfortunately it's not very simple with the current code and so far there haven't been many complaints.
Hi Timo,
I just realised from the e-mail I sent earlier, the output of FETCH 32 FULL and FETCH 32 BODY[TEXT] are not the same. They are referring to different messages.
a1 fetch 32 full
- 32 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "26-Jul-2007 00:35:20 +0800" RFC822.SIZE 40598 ENVELOPE ("Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:22:09 +0800" "ADV: Empowering Your Presentation Skills" (("Personal Development Workshops" NIL "enews" "JuzEvents2.com")) (("Personal Development Workshops" NIL "enews" "JuzEvents2.com")) (("Personal Development Workshops" NIL "enews" "JuzEvents2.com")) ((NIL NIL "XXXXXXXXXXXX" "pacific.net.sg")) NIL NIL NIL "004e4411357e78a1b6eec83d00114028@juzevents2.com") BODY ("text" "html" ("charset" "gb2312") NIL NIL "base64" 39532 508)) a1 OK Fetch completed. a1 fetch 32 body[text]
- 32 FETCH (BODY[TEXT] {39532} dsl-146-173-81.clt.bellsouth.net (72.146.173.81) by mx6.pacific.net.sg with SMTP; 1 Aug 2007 01:48:14 -0000 Received: from NHGF ([10.161.42.56]) by adsl-146-173-81.clt.bellsouth.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id i154842195219s7Ho019018 for XXXXXXXXXXXX@pacific.net.sg; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:48:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from espainolax_6666@yahoo.es) Message-ID: 005801c7d3de$046dbe90$51ad9248@NHGF From: "espainolax_6666" espainolax_6666@yahoo.es To: XXXXXXXXXXXX@pacific.net.sg Subject: soggy fighter pilot
I had to delete the dovecot.index.cache file for it to work.
Is there anything I can do to help with the debugging? The tricky part is that this is a user mailbox, so I may not be able to have control when e-mails get deleted.
Cheers.
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Tan Shao Yi
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Timo Sirainen