[Dovecot] current CVS seems to have index problems.

Andreas Jaekel jaekel at webgods.de
Tue Nov 4 19:15:56 EET 2003


Oops.

The patch I sent was bad(tm)... the line in mbox_index_rewrite.c
needs to be 3 lines up.

Regards,
    Andy



At 18:07 04/11/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Timo.
>
>I've checked out the current CVS version and tested it.
>There seems to be a problem when dovecot accesses mailboxes
>for the first time:
>
>I have a mailbox with 4 mails, and no special IMAP headers.
>(no X-IMAPBase, X-UID etc.)  and it's in mbox format.
>
>I log in, SELECT the folder and do
>FETCH 2 BODY[]
>and receive only a snipplet of the mail from
>somewhere in the middle of it.
>
>After some debugging it seems like dovecot:
>1. creates an index, for mbox_index_rewrite(),
>2. rewrites the mbox, but then
>3. forgets to update the index after the rewrite.
>and ends up in a state with a pre-rewrite index but
>a post-rewrite folder.
>
>Now, there are many ways to make dovecot rebuild
>the index after rewriting the folder, but some are
>ugly and some are not, some need extra code to avoid
>endless loops.  I don't know how you would want this
>fixed.
>
>I attached a patch that worked for me.
>
>After that patch, I have more (new?) problems, which
>may or may not be related.
>
>Now, when I SELECT a folder and do a COPY within
>the folder (*smile*) I get this:
>
>A COPY 1 INBOX
>* BYE Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin.
>Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>
>... which is what I'm gonna start looking for right now. :)
>
>
>Regards,
>    Andy
>
>




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