[Dovecot] save failed to INBOX

Erland Nylend erland.nylend at lyse.no
Wed Jun 13 12:00:45 EEST 2007


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.
> 
> Anyway, if the failure is non-critical such as "quota exceeded", Dovecot
> doesn't currently log anything. 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 added the patch, and recompiled with these options:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-1.0.0.patched --with-mysql
--with-passwd=no --with-sqlite=no --with-pam=no --with-shadow=no
--with-gssapi

This is a log line from /var/log/dovecot-deliver.err:

deliver(firstname.lastname at domain.tld): Jun 13 10:36:29 Info:
msgid=<NM-0-3-40561452-1181723787 at mailgen-0-1>: save failed to
INBOX: Unknown error

Not sure whether this is the same problem, though. The log line only
appears once. I'll send you an update if I get more error messages.

-- 
Erland Nylend



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