[Dovecot] dovecot and maillists problem

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Aug 25 09:00:59 EEST 2011


I mean, my point of view of what is happening is is disagreement with the logs you showed. So something's weird here and only the LMTP traffic logs can lead to more clarity.

On 25.8.2011, at 8.49, Костырев Александр Алексеевич wrote:

>> But that kind of conflicts on your logs that show tons of SQL lookups one after another..
> 
> I'm not sure that these are conflicts.
> As I see it, it's legitimate lookups for the users who are the members of maillist
> I thought that's correct behavior, am I wrong?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 4:36 PM
> To: Костырев Александр Алексеевич
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and maillists problem
> 
> On 25.8.2011, at 8.17, Костырев Александр Алексеевич wrote:
> 
>> The problem is:
>> When I send a letter to short maillist (as above) it get the same ID and stored only once in the maildir of one user who is the member of that maillist - that's ok, but
>> When I send a letter to maillist with a large number of recipients it occurred that it's saved more than one, because of the headers added by dovecot lmtp (I've changed host name):
>> 
>> diff letter_in_one_user/1314238006.M841940P6916.pink\,S\=12778136\,W\=12953189 letler_in_second_user/new/1314237993.M460165P6916.pink\,S\=12778136\,W\=12953189 
>> 3,4c3,4
>> < 	by pink.atlas-2.ru (Dovecot) with LMTP id 6UiGJBWuVU4EGwAA1nFjLA
>> < 	; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:06:46 +1100
>> ---
>>> 	by pink.atlas-2.ru (Dovecot) with LMTP id VUeGJBWuVU4EGwAA1nFjLA
>>> 	; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:06:29 +1100
>> 
>> It's the same letter accept the date and id.
> 
> Try capturing the LMTP traffic between Dovecot and Exim? I'm not sure if there's a good way to capture traffic from UNIX sockets, but at least if Exim and Dovecot talk via TCP there are many ways.
> 
> The different LMTP ids and dates are added only when there are different DATA commands, which would mean that Exim has sent separate RCPT TO + DATA commands for each of these mails. But that kind of conflicts on your logs that show tons of SQL lookups one after another..
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