Stale mailbox lock file

Raffaele Gambelli

23 Feb 2018 23 Feb '18

11:41 a.m.

Hi all, I would like to understand the meaning of "Stale mailbox lock file detected" In index-storage.c (https://mis.dopa.go.th/atmail/server_source/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/in...) there is this notice "Stale mailbox lock file detected" ...

I have a java application which connects via javamail to a dovecot server and I have some anomalies when that message comes.

Thanks, bye

Raffaele Gambelli

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Aki Tuomi

23 Feb 23 Feb

11:44 a.m.

On 23.02.2018 11:41, Raffaele Gambelli wrote:

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Hi all, I would like to understand the meaning of "Stale mailbox lock file detected" In index-storage.c (https://mis.dopa.go.th/atmail/server_source/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/in...) there is this notice "Stale mailbox lock file detected" ...

I have a java application which connects via javamail to a dovecot server and I have some anomalies when that message comes.

Thanks, bye

Raffaele Gambelli

This is third email you've sent about this...

doveconf -n

Also do you have some other process(es) that touch the mailbox?

Aki

Raffaele Gambelli

12:07 p.m.

Aki Tuomi

12:22 p.m.

I have no idea how you'd even get that error then.

Aki

On 23.02.2018 12:07, Raffaele Gambelli wrote:

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Thanks but what answer it mean "doveconf -n"? I have neither control nor access in the dovecot installation to which I'm connecting.

I'm waiting to know the dovecot version but it could be that for legal reasons I will never receive it.

So please, if you know it obviously, why and when a dovecot server sends that notice?

Thanks, bye

Raffaele Gambelli

-----Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> ha scritto: ----- Per: Raffaele Gambelli <R.Gambelli@hitachi-systems-cbt.com>, dovecot@dovecot.org Da: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> Data: 23/02/2018 10.54AM Oggetto: Re: Stale mailbox lock file

On 23.02.2018 11:41, Raffaele Gambelli wrote:

...
Hi all, I would like to understand the meaning of "Stale mailbox lock file detected" In index-storage.c (https://mis.dopa.go.th/atmail/server_source/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/in... ) there is this notice "Stale mailbox lock file detected" ...

I have a java application which connects via javamail to a dovecot server and I have some anomalies when that message comes.

Thanks, bye

Raffaele Gambelli

This is third email you've sent about this...

doveconf -n

Also do you have some other process(es) that touch the mailbox?

Aki

Raffaele Gambelli

12:25 p.m.

Aki Tuomi

1:10 p.m.

Yes. I am one of them.

---Aki TuomiDovecot oy -------- Original message --------From: Raffaele Gambelli <R.Gambelli@hitachi-systems-cbt.com> Date: 23/02/2018 12:25 (GMT+02:00) To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: Stale mailbox lock file

Thanks Aki, do you know if this list is read by dovecot developers team too? Could you point me to the right list otherwise?

Raffaele Gambelli

-----Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> ha scritto: -----

Per: Raffaele Gambelli <R.Gambelli@hitachi-systems-cbt.com> Da: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi>

Data: 23/02/2018 11.22AM Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Oggetto: Re: Stale mailbox lock file

    I have no idea how you'd even get that error then.

Aki
    
On 23.02.2018 12:07, Raffaele Gambelli
  wrote:
    

    Thanks but what answer it mean "

doveconf -n"?
I have neither control nor access in the dovecot installation to which I'm connecting. I'm waiting to know the dovecot version but it could be that for legal reasons I will never receive it.

            So please, if you know it obviously, why and when a dovecot
      server sends that notice?        
    
    Thanks, bye
      
      Raffaele Gambelli

-----Aki Tuomi
<aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> ha scritto: -----
Per: Raffaele Gambelli
<R.Gambelli@hitachi-systems-cbt.com>,
dovecot@dovecot.org Da: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> Data: 23/02/2018 10.54AM

        Oggetto: Re: Stale mailbox lock file

On 23.02.2018 11:41, Raffaele Gambelli wrote: Hi all, I would like to understand the meaning of "Stale mailbox lock file detected" In index-storage.c ( https://mis.dopa.go.th/atmail/server_source/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/in... ) there is this notice "Stale mailbox lock file detected" ...

              I have a java application which connects via javamail
              to a dovecot server and I have some anomalies when                  that message comes.

              
              Thanks, bye
              

              Raffaele Gambelli
              
            
                    
        This is third email you've sent about this...

        
        doveconf -n
        
        Also do you have some other process(es) that touch the
        mailbox?
        
        Aki

Raffaele Gambelli

1:53 p.m.

Aki Tuomi

24 Feb 24 Feb

4:10 p.m.

It gets called when some imap process has left a lock file, but didn't clean it up (i.e. it crashed?). It means it cannot lock uidlist, but will notify if count of messages change.

It is not very simple to debug this kind of issue from outside.

Aki

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On 23 February 2018 at 13:53 Raffaele Gambelli <R.Gambelli@hitachi-systems-cbt.com> wrote:

So you don't know when this piece of code is executed:

case MAILBOX_LOCK_NOTIFY_MAILBOX_OVERRIDE: if (storage->callbacks->notify_ok == NULL) break; str = t_strdup_printf("Stale mailbox lock file detected, " "will override in %u seconds", secs_left); storage->callbacks->notify_ok(&ibox->box, str, storage->callback_context); break; }

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Also do you have some other process(es) that touch the mailbox?

Without having access to this dovecot installation, I can't answer your question, but which could be the problem if there were some other processes?

I try to reformulate question, is it possible that when dovecot sends that notification, it blocks and don't send any other notifications like for example when the count of messages in a folder is changed?

Raffaele Gambelli

-----"dovecot" <dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org> ha scritto: ----- Per: Raffaele Gambelli <R.Gambelli@hitachi-systems-cbt.com>, dovecot@dovecot.org Da: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> Inviato da: "dovecot" <dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org> Data: 23/02/2018 12.10PM Oggetto: Re: Stale mailbox lock file

Yes. I am one of them.

Aki Tuomi Dovecot oy

-------- Original message -------- From: Raffaele Gambelli <R.Gambelli@hitachi-systems-cbt.com> Date: 23/02/2018 12:25 (GMT+02:00) To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: Stale mailbox lock file

Thanks Aki,

do you know if this list is read by dovecot developers team too? Could you point me to the right list otherwise?

Raffaele Gambelli

-----Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> ha scritto: ----- Per: Raffaele Gambelli <R.Gambelli@hitachi-systems-cbt.com> Da: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> Data: 23/02/2018 11.22AM Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Oggetto: Re: Stale mailbox lock file

I have no idea how you'd even get that error then.

Aki

On 23.02.2018 12:07, Raffaele Gambelli wrote:

...
    Thanks but what answer it mean " doveconf -n"? 
    I have neither control nor access in the dovecot installation to which I'm connecting.

    I'm waiting to know the dovecot version but it could be that for legal reasons I will never receive it.

    So please, if you know it obviously, why and when a dovecot server sends that notice?

    Thanks, bye

    Raffaele Gambelli

    -----Aki Tuomi &lt;aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> ha scritto: -----
      Per: Raffaele Gambelli &lt;R.Gambelli@hitachi-systems-cbt.com>, dovecot@dovecot.org
      Da: Aki Tuomi &lt;aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi>
      Data: 23/02/2018 10.54AM
      Oggetto: Re: Stale mailbox lock file




      On 23.02.2018 11:41, Raffaele Gambelli wrote:

          > >               Hi all,
...
          I would like to understand the meaning of "Stale mailbox lock file detected"
          In index-storage.c ( https://mis.dopa.go.th/atmail/server_source/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/index-storage.c ) there is this notice "Stale mailbox lock file detected" ...

          I have a java application which connects via javamail to a dovecot server and I have some anomalies when that message comes.

          Thanks, bye

          Raffaele Gambelli


      >           This is third email you've sent about this...
      doveconf -n

      Also do you have some other process(es) that touch the mailbox?

      Aki

  &lt;/dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org>&lt;/aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi>

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