We're using Dovecot 2.2.4 and mdbox storage with compression.

I noticed yesterday that at least one of the accounts has unusual files in it's mail/storage directory. This account has approximately 17.5G of compressed mail, across about 750 storage files (m.###) using 8G of storage.

Starting on Dec 11, storage files m.409 through m.731 have not only their m.### file, but also a m.###.broken file. At the same time .temp.<unix time>.<unique id>.<hostname> files also started showing up... ... -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 3225 Dec 12 04:38 m.708 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 167106 Dec 12 03:35 m.708.broken -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 46155 Dec 12 04:38 m.709 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 177267 Dec 12 03:40 m.709.broken -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 20965889 Nov 26 19:22 m.71 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 133248 Dec 12 04:38 m.710 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 264361 Dec 12 03:40 m.710.broken -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 103407 Dec 12 04:38 m.711 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 627736 Dec 12 03:40 m.711.broken -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 5132 Dec 12 04:38 m.712 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 136244 Dec 12 03:40 m.712.broken -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 187224 Dec 12 04:38 m.713 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 351104 Dec 12 03:45 m.713.broken -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 435793 Dec 12 04:38 m.714 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 566906 Dec 12 03:45 m.714.broken -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 60916 Dec 12 04:38 m.715 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 192028 Dec 12 03:50 m.715.broken -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 38051 Dec 12 04:38 m.716 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 169163 Dec 12 03:50 m.716.broken -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 226067 Dec 12 04:38 m.717 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 389948 Dec 12 04:00 m.717.broken ... -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 20967506 Dec 2 17:32 m.96 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 20967131 Dec 2 18:40 m.97 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 20969078 Dec 2 18:38 m.98 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 20963978 Dec 2 19:23 m.99 -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 294968 Dec 11 20:05 .temp.1386813944.P9142Q0M123686.myhost -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 294968 Dec 11 20:05 .temp.1386813967.P9213Q0M387733.myhost -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 294968 Dec 11 20:05 .temp.1386813970.P9231Q0M371190.myhost -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 327736 Dec 11 20:05 .temp.1386813972.P9173Q0M932070.myhost -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 327736 Dec 11 20:05 .temp.1386813972.P9239Q0M114754.myhost -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 327736 Dec 11 20:05 .temp.1386813983.P9261Q0M640646.myhost -rw--w---- 1 user123 mail 1048632 Dec 11 20:06 .temp.1386814038.P9515Q0M530600.myhost

I'm not really seeing anything that stands out in the maillog during this time.

What caused this problem? How concerned should I be about possible lost email? This is a production environment.

Below is the dovecot -n output.

-- Michael Smith

# dovecot -n # 2.2.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_default_realm = mydomain.com auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lock_method = dotlock mail_access_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_location = mdbox:~/mail:INDEX=~/index mail_plugins = quota zlib 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 mbox_read_locks = dotlock mbox_write_locks = dotlock mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 weeks mdbox_rotate_size = 20 M mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext driver = sql master = yes pass = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Junk autosubscribe3 = Drafts autosubscribe4 = Sent autosubscribe5 = INBOX mail_max_userip_connections = 10 managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 quota = dict:User quota::file:%h/dovecot.quota quota2_rule = Trash:storage=+10%% quota3_rule = Junk:storage=+20%% quota_rule = *:storage=100M:messages=100000 recipient_delimiter = + sieve_before = /var/opt/mail/global.sieve/ zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 9 } pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes protocols = imap pop3 sieve lmtp service auth { inet_listener auth { port = 113 } unix_listener auth-userdb { user = nobody } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 1 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } ssl = no ssl_cert =