[Dovecot] file name missing component in error message

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Feb 13 02:24:59 EET 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:12 -0600, Mike Abbott wrote:
> > Are you using deliver?
> 
> Yup.  The corrupted files actually contain dot-lock data  
> (pid:hostname) followed by a bunch of nulls.  For instance, a mail  
> file with an S=3368 flag in the file name contains  
> "12345:mail.example.com" (22 bytes) followed by 3346 nulls.  I'm  
> unfamiliar with how dovecot uses dot-lock files; is this more likely  
> to be dovecot's fault or a disk corruption?

Sounds more like disk corruption. Mail files start empty and pid:host is
never written to them at any point.

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