[Dovecot] Index corruption causes child process to die

[Timo Sirainen]

On 4.12.2006, at 15.54, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen wrote:

>>>>> Nov  8 20:36:44 mail dovecot: IMAP(lrosa): Corrupted index file
>>>>> /var/spool/mail2/lrosa/.Postfix/dovecot.index: Duplicate header
>>>>> extension keywords

Wonder if rc17 fixes this?

> FWIW: I've set "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no" as a workaround  
> here,
> and there's no discernable effect on performance.
>
> The only effect I've been able to notice is that the index corruption
> problem goes away.
>
> Perhaps just write this up as a known bug for 1.0 and explain the  
> workaround?

I think it's a workaround only because it slows down Dovecot enough  
so this problem just doesn't happen anymore.
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