The dovecot lda panics with "Trying to sync mailbox INBOX with open transactions" if a user has no sieve script defined. Debugging shows:

Sep 14 19:49:26 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.debug] lda(userxx):
Debug: sieve: user's script path /home/grp/userxx/.dovecot.sieve
doesn't exist (using global script path in stead) Sep 14 19:49:26 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.debug] lda(userxx):
Debug: sieve: user has no valid personal script Sep 14 19:49:26 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.debug] lda(userxx):
Debug: sieve: no scripts to execute: reverting to default delivery. Sep 14 19:49:26 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] lda(userxx):
Panic: Trying to sync mailbox INBOX with open transactions Sep 14 19:49:26 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] lda(userxx):
Error: Raw backtrace: 0xff1cc2ac -> 0xff1cbb70 -> 0xff2a6474 ->
0xff2a668c -> 0xff2fa444 -> 0xff2a63c8 -> 0xff2668ec -> 0xff266f74 ->
0xff26741c -> 0x12720 -> 0x11948

I then did create an empty sieve script file with touch /home/grp/userxx/.dovecot.sieve and after that lda worked:

Sep 14 19:50:55 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.debug] lda(userxx):
Debug: sieve: using sieve path for user's script:
/home/grp/userxx/.dovecot.sieve Sep 14 19:50:55 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.debug] lda(userxx):
Debug: sieve: opening script /home/grp/userxx/.dovecot.sieve Sep 14 19:50:55 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.debug] lda(userxx):
Debug: sieve: script /home/grp/userxx/.dovecot.sieve successfully
compiled Sep 14 19:50:55 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.debug] lda(userxx):
Debug: sieve: executing script from /home/grp/userxx/.dovecot.sieve Sep 14 19:50:56 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] lda(userxx):
save: box=INBOX, uid=6,
msgid=<201109141750.p8EHotbE015854@server.hrz.uni-giessen.de>, size=1035 Sep 14 19:50:56 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.debug] lda(userxx):
Debug: box=/var/mail/userxx mount=/var/mail match=yes Sep 14 19:50:56 server dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] lda(userxx):
sieve: msgid=<201109141750.p8EHotbE015854@server.hrz.uni-giessen.de>:
stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX'

I think the lda worked in previous releases without a sieve script
file in the users home directory.

dovecot -n output is: # 2.0.14: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = server.hrz.uni-giessen.de localhost mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = mail_log notify quota mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
environment mailbox date ihave mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = Mail/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = caughtspam autocreate3 = Sent autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = caughtspam autosubscribe3 = Sent mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = fs:Home-Verzeichnis:noenforcing quota2 = fs:INBOX:noenforcing:mount=/var/mail sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster@hrz.uni-giessen.de protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail service auth { client_limit = 11120 } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 640 M } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 1 G } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/server.key syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } version_ignore = yes protocol lda { info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = mail_log notify quota sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = mail_log notify quota autocreate imap_quota } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = mail_log notify quota sieve } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu }

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