[Dovecot] Indexes

[Daniel L. Miller]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 09:55 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>   
>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 10:54 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> When something "bad" happens to the indexes, my e-mail client 
>>>> (Thunderbird) reports an "unable to succeed" error on opening a 
>>>> mailbox.  Leaving that mailbox and coming back works fine.  Is this 
>>>> expected behaviour?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It's expected, but it's not expected that anything bad happens to your
>>> indexes normally. What do the logs show as the reason?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I see a variety, but a sample:
>>
>> Dec 31 11:09:26 bubba dovecot: IMAP(mgillespie at amfes.com): Corrupted 
>> transaction log file 
>> /var/mail/amfes.com/mgillespie/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: start_offset 
>> (20200) > file size (20184)
>>     
>
> What filesystem is this with? Looks like NFS caching issues.
>   
XFS, on a RAID-10, local to the Dovecot server.  No NFS used anywhere in 
the network - Samba used for filesharing. 

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Daniel