These may be happening to people with big (250MB) mbox folders

Stewart Dean wrote:

In V1.1.15 that I fell back to. Again:

# 1.1.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00 listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 12 login_max_processes_count: 774 max_mail_processes: 1024 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_dirty_syncs: no auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

This is happening during peak load; the error msgs I'm seeing look like:

Nov 5 15:01:47 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(olson): Corrupted transaction log file /var/dci ndx/olson/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 742: file_seq=742, min_file_offset (24) < hdr_size (40) (sync_offset=24) Nov 5 15:04:13 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(herchenr): Corrupted transaction log file /var/ dcindx/herchenr/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 357: file_seq=357, min_file_offset (24) < hdr_size (40) (sync_offset=24) Nov 5 15:04:13 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(herchenr): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Re fer to server log for more information. [2009-11-05 15:04:13] bytes=1314/18024 Nov 5 15:04:33 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(olson): Transaction log file /var/dcindx/olson/ .imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Nov 5 15:06:17 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(olson): Corrupted transaction log file /var/dci ndx/olson/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 742: file_seq=742, min_file_offset (24) < hdr_size (40) (sync_offset=24) Nov 5 15:06:17 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(olson): Transaction log got desynced for index /var/dcindx/olson/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index

Is worrisome or inconsequential? About 40 such messages in 30 minutes, mostly clumped together

-- ==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty pick-proof locks, one of those braces that goes from the lock to the floor, and bars on the windows.... ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035