[Dovecot] index file corruption

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 3 02:25:28 EET 2004


On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 21:59, mat at reynerie.org wrote:
> I'm using Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10p0) on OpenBSD-3.4 for few weeks now.
> 
> When i connect to my IMAP account the connection is often closed by 
> dovecot when i try to delete mails.
> 
> I can see messages like this in log:
> 
> Feb 29 18:47:00 po imap(mat at reynerie.org): Corrupted binary tree file
> /home/mat/Maildir//.INBOX/.imap.index.tree: used_file_size larger than
> real file size (1772 vs 1556)

I guess Dovecot doesn't work too well with OpenBSD now. Although I
haven't heard of constant failures with it. OpenBSD-port had a patch
which tried to fix this issue, but I don't think the patch is perfect.

Real fix will be next version..

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