[Dovecot] Assertion failed

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:43 +0100, Jonathan Knight wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:48 +0100, Jonathan Knight wrote:
> >   
> >> May  2 12:39:00 lenny dovecot: IMAP(XXXXX): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: 
> >> line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion failed: (start_pos < 
> >> data_size)
> >>     
> >
> > Hmm. Does attached patch help?
> >   
> 
> 
> Sorry folks - I was testing out the bug with my own mailbox so I was 
> offline for a moment or two.
> 
> I had a flash of inspiration which has identified the cause of the 
> problem.  Due to an earlier mistake (not mine!) we ended up with the 
> students having two copies of most of their mail messages.  The bug is 
> triggered by trying to delete one of the duplicates.  Once the index 
> files are mangled there is no way back other than deleting the index 
> files and starting again.

Well, if you can still reproduce this bug easily, I'd like to know if
the patch fixes it :)
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