Hello, since updating two of our backup mailservers from dovecot 1.1.16 to 1.2.4 i get the following errors from dovecot-deliver when receiving (smtp) mail.

Oct 16 00:10:42 mail3 dovecot: deliver(user): write_full(/home/r/user/.temp.backupmail.22774.d17050a07b2108e8) failed: Stale NFS file handle Oct 16 00:10:42 mail3 dovecot: deliver(user): copy: i_stream_read() failed: Stale NFS file handle Oct 16 00:10:43 mail3 dovecot: deliver(user): msgid=<d0acb2021be1922ae2d35fbd6b09994c.squirrel@www.physik.tu-berlin.de>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-10-16 00:10:42]

It nearly never happens with text/plain mails but _very_ often when mails have attachments of some different type. This is inside a 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD jail. The NFS export is mounted from the machine that is running the jail. Locking with lockf works.

Following is the output of dovecot -n from the mailserver. Please tell me if you need any further information.

Thanks in Advance, Leon

$ dovecot -n # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s managesieve listen: mail3.physik.tu-berlin.de ssl_cert_file: /etc/private/backupmail.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/private/backupmail_privatekey.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_processes_count: 6 login_max_processes_count: 256 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 first_valid_gid: 300 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/maildir mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ location: mbox:~/mail list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@physik.tu-berlin.de log_path: info_log_path: mail_plugins: sieve quota_full_tempfail: yes sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: gssapi plain login username_format: %Lu krb5_keytab: /etc/mail3.krb5.keytab gssapi_hostname: backupmail worker_max_count: 120 passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes failure_show_msg=yes max_requests=100 dovecot userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/.sieve