[Dovecot] imap indexing error when moving multiple mails

[Moe Wibble]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:21:48PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 30.4.2004, at 18:22, Olivier Tharan wrote:
> 
> >| Apr 30 17:17:32 munster pop3(zzzzzzz): Error indexing mbox file 
> >/var/mail/zzzzzzz: LF not found where expected
> ..
> >A precision: /var/mail is a NFS filesystem (from a Netapp). The
> >indexes are on a local disk.
> >
> >The same test on a box with a local spool (no NFS) does not
> >trigger the errors. On both machines, this is dovecot-0.99.10.4
> >from the FreeBSD ports.
> 
> mail_read_mmaped = no I guess?
> 
> Recently I've began wondering what exactly are NFS client's caching 
> rules. When exactly does it try to read the file from local cache and 
> when does it check that it's not changed in server? Maybe the only 
> answer to write fully NFS compatible code is to read the actual NFS 
> client implementations of most popular OSes :)
> 
> Of course, this might not be NFS-related bug at all even though it 
> triggers only with NFS. Anyway, I don't think I'll spend any time 
> wondering about it as mbox code will be rewritten anyway.

Hi Timo,

may I ask for a working stable Maildir-index before you go
at the mbox-rewrite? ;-)

I'd just love to get rid of the (few) quierks that my v0.99.8 has.
But unfornationally every time I try an update or fetch a cvs copy the
index-code seems to be (still?) broken :-(


best regards