[Dovecot] hangup with corrupted indexes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 28 13:53:30 EEST 2005


On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:52 +0900, Sergey Redin wrote:
> dovecot should be OK and just recreate it. So I report here a bug: I have
> corrupted indexes which make pop3 and imap processes to hangup right
> after the first list command. The process does not respond and eats 90%
> of CPU. Just unpack http://redin.info/dovecot-corrupted-index.tgz (10 Kb)
> into a user's IMAP root (I have mbox storage, but the same thing for 
> maildir
> with this indexes), do the chown, and try to check the email.

Thanks, fixed. There already was code for checking loops inside cache
file, but it was missing from one place.

Of course, this condition should have never happened anyway..

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