[Dovecot] save failed to INBOX

[Erland Nylend]

On 2007-06-12, 21:27, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:54 +0200, Erland Nylend wrote:
> 
> > deliver(firstname.lastname at domain.tld): Jun 12 18:30:57 Info: msgid=<ECEMJFJEJPMECJKPPFBJEEBOCCAA.foo.bar at domain.tld>: save failed to INBOX
> > deliver(firstname.lastname at domain.tld): Jun 12 18:30:57 Info: msgid=<ECEMJFJEJPMECJKPPFBJGEBOCCAA.foo.bar at domain.tld>: saved mail to INBOX
> 
> As you see there, the message-IDs are the same. So Dovecot first tried
> to save a message to INBOX and then when it failed it tried to do that
> again which finally succeeded. I can't figure out why it would ever try
> to save it twice to INBOX though.

For these two messages, the message-ids were the same, but in most
cases they are different..

> Anyway, if the failure is non-critical such as "quota exceeded", Dovecot
> doesn't currently log anything.

I've checked some of the accounts, and they are not over quota. It
seems that some deliveries fail, and then they receive mail again
afterwards ..

> If the save wouldn't have succeeded, it would have given the error
> message in rejection mail. This patch makes it log the error
> always: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/abc4be10176e

I'll try it first thing tomorrow, and give you a feedback.

-- 
Erland Nylend