[Dovecot] Dovecot corrupted index cache

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Jun 28 20:10:05 EEST 2008


On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 10:00 -0700, Michael D Godfrey wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:40 -0700, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
> >   
> >>> > > A guess would be that this is likely due to the endianess of the 
> >>> > > multiple architectures that the index is being accessed with. We have 
> >>> > > the same issue here across i686/x86_64/sparc. I'm about to post to an 
> >>> > > older email thread about this as well. 
> >>>       
> >> > This is a good guess.  We use a mixture of i386 and x86_64.  This is not 
> >> > an "endedness" conflict, but
> >> > could be the problem for other reasons.
> >>     
> >
> > So you use NFS?
> >
> >   
> Clients mount off of the server, but dovecot (IMAP) connections are made
> directly.  Home directories are not mounted, so I do not think NFS can be
> affecting  dovecot.  I think the problem is due to 2 users using the 
> same account
> making simultaneous access.  It could be that the users need to be on 
> machines
> with differing architectures (i386 and x86_64 in our case).

I don't really understand. If there is no NFS, then that means you have
only one Dovecot server. So how can one Dovecot server be both i386 and
x86_64? Or if you mean the client machines are i386/x86-64, Dovecot
doesn't even know about them so that doesn't matter.

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