[Dovecot] Re: New mail sometimes fails to appear

[Tom Alsberg]

Sorry, forgot the attachment...

Here it is.

  -- Tom

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:13:03AM +0200, I wrote:
><snip />
> 4. Furthermore:  If the last message seen from within Thunderbird was
>    not yet read, and the problem occurs (new mail arrives that is not
>    seen), this last message will then seem corrupted from Thunderbird
>    - it will contain at the end some garbage filling, and then part of
>    the next message in the mailbox.
> 
>    This is while the mailbox itself is completely valid, has no such
>    garbage in it, and the messages are validly separated by an empty
>    line and a valid "From " line.  Perhaps this means there's some
>    race-condition bug in the mbox reading/index syncing code?  That's
>    the code I least understand as of now...
> 
>    Attached is an example of one such last message saved from
>    Thunderbird after new mail arrived that was not seen.  The filler
>    characters are bytes of 0x80, and then the next message from
>    "n-Path: " is present.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
>   Cheers,
>   -- Tom

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