[dovecot] Re: pop3 coredump

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 02:35, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> If I rename dovecot-uidlist out of the way, it successfully builds a
> new one and no longer complains, and is happy on repeated invocations.
> If I put back the dovecot-uidlist, it is not happy again.
> 
> However- the same is true of the .imap* files.  If I move them out of
> the way (and leave the old dovecot-uidlist in place), the new pop3 is
> happy to build a new set and use them (again, on repeated invocations).
> If I move back the old .imap* files, the error is back.
> 
> So- moving either of those helps.

OK, I think the problem is then just that Dovecot crashes before it has
time to rebuild index file. And it's broken because previous -test
releases broke it.

> The older pop3 also seems happy to use the newly generated files.
> (but again it's also happy with the old ones).

That's because older versions didn't use the uidlist file at all.

> I don't know what happens if new mail comes in after the new files
> are generated.

Probably works.