On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 09:21 +0200, Brent Clark wrote:

Hi list

I seem to be getting quite a bit of this type of messages in my syslog.

Aug 19 09:14:45 mail dovecot: IMAP(bclark): Lost transaction log file /home/bclark/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4 Aug 19 09:14:45 mail dovecot: IMAP(bclark): Lost transaction log file /home/bclark/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4

Would anyone know how I can go about fixing / understanding this.

What Dovecot version? I did some improvements to this which aren't in dovecot-stable releases yet. They can still happen with 1.0-alphas, but should be pretty rare. They mostly happen if there are multiple connections to same mailbox and one of the connections wakes up after idling for a long time while there have been modifications to the mailbox.

I have "if log file is lost, generate it from old and new index" in TODO, but it probably won't make it into 1.0 release unless it actually becomes a common problem.

You could also change the rotation values from src/lib-index/mail-transaction-log-private.h. The defaults are that if .log file is larger than 128kB and it was created more than 5 minutes ago, it's safe to be rotated.