Getting a lot of these error for two specific mailboxes. They repeat many times a day, usually within less than 5 minutes.
mail dovecot: imap(kremels): Error: Broken file /home/kremels/Maildir/.zz.x-tech.2010/dovecot-uidlist line 2: Invalid extended fields: :
$ cat .zz.x-tech.2010/dovecot-uidlist 3 V1263241007 N56581 G11fe2118db236952f984010021d1a38d
OI tried deleting the files that generated the errors, but they were recreated and the errors returned.
(I’m using dovecot2 and Maildir)
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, LuKreme wrote:
Getting a lot of these error for two specific mailboxes. They repeat many times a day, usually within less than 5 minutes.
mail dovecot: imap(kremels): Error: Broken file /home/kremels/Maildir/.zz.x-tech.2010/dovecot-uidlist line 2: Invalid extended fields: :
$ cat .zz.x-tech.2010/dovecot-uidlist 3 V1263241007 N56581 G11fe2118db236952f984010021d1a38d
OI tried deleting the files that generated the errors, but they were recreated and the errors returned.
the error claims line 2, but the file has just one? Or is the second line present, but empty (just newline).
Is it possible, that two Dovecot instances, maybe two on the same server or via a shared filesystem, access the same mailbox the same time?
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On 25 Oct 2013, at 02:15 , Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, LuKreme wrote:
Getting a lot of these error for two specific mailboxes. They repeat many times a day, usually within less than 5 minutes.
mail dovecot: imap(kremels): Error: Broken file /home/kremels/Maildir/.zz.x-tech.2010/dovecot-uidlist line 2: Invalid extended fields: :
$ cat .zz.x-tech.2010/dovecot-uidlist 3 V1263241007 N56581 G11fe2118db236952f984010021d1a38d
OI tried deleting the files that generated the errors, but they were recreated and the errors returned.
the error claims line 2, but the file has just one? Or is the second line present, but empty (just newline).
Hmm. I think it had just one line.
I *think* I figured it out, the mailboxes that were causing the errors each had a file in them named “:,2” since removing those and removing the dovecot-uidlist the problem hasn’t returned.
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, LuKreme wrote:
hi Timo,
I *think* I figured it out, the mailboxes that were causing the errors each had a file in them named “:,2” since removing those and removing the dovecot-uidlist the problem hasn’t returned.
if the Maildir has the file ":,2" in it, you get two errors the first time you select that mailbox:
Error: Broken file /<root>/Maildir/.t/dovecot-uidlist line 2: Invalid extended fields: : Warning: Fixed a duplicate: /<root>/Maildir/.t/cur/:2, -> 1382969744.M379516P28028.msa
but the ":2," remains in the Maildir. The next time the mailbox changes, e.g after "touch /<root>/Maildir/.t/cur", you only get the first error.
Actually such file should never exist in a Maildir and is most likly not created by Dovecot itself, but for robustness Dovecot could rename such file into some sane name. Tested with
# 2.2.5 (9531ec8afe8b): /usr/local/dovecot-2.2.5/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
Thanks,
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On 28.10.2013, at 16.29, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
I *think* I figured it out, the mailboxes that were causing the errors each had a file in them named “:,2” since removing those and removing the dovecot-uidlist the problem hasn’t returned.
if the Maildir has the file ":,2" in it, you get two errors the first time you select that mailbox:
Error: Broken file /<root>/Maildir/.t/dovecot-uidlist line 2: Invalid extended fields: : Warning: Fixed a duplicate: /<root>/Maildir/.t/cur/:2, -> 1382969744.M379516P28028.msa
but the ":2," remains in the Maildir. The next time the mailbox changes, e.g after "touch /<root>/Maildir/.t/cur", you only get the first error.
Actually such file should never exist in a Maildir and is most likly not created by Dovecot itself, but for robustness Dovecot could rename such file into some sane name. Tested with
OK, fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/58dfed53ab43
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LuKreme
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Steffen Kaiser
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Timo Sirainen