[Dovecot] dsync deleting too many emails (sdbox)

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 9.2.2012, at 21.47, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> I've anyway done several fixes in v2.1. Can you try if these problems 
>> happen with it too? And in any case cleanup the dbox from the *.broken 
>> files, so that "doveadm force-resync" won't give any errors.
>
> A bit more specifically: The last such dbox bug was fixed only today, so 
> you'd need v2.1 hg version or wait for v2.1.rc6 which should happen this 
> week.
>
> And in general: It would be helpful to have a clean fully working dbox, 
> and then know the *first* error(s) that gets printed about dsync 
> corrupting it. Otherwise it's difficult to guess what are some old 
> problems and what are new ones and which problems happens only because 
> of another problem.

Good to know. This weekend I can try to set up something of a 'lab' for 
testing dsync + (s)dbox, both to see if I can reproduce the errors with 
the old versions, and to see if the new versions fix them. I'll keep in 
mind the consideration of knowing the first error that gets printed!

-- Asheesh.