[Dovecot] [dovecot] dovecot freezes when trying to get mail from maildir with mail

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 10:58 +0100, postmaster wrote:
> 
> #0  0x90003afa in mach_msg_trap ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #1  0x90004267 in mach_msg ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #2  0x9001b431 in vproc_mig_look_up2 ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #3  0x9001b26a in bootstrap_look_up2 ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #4  0x9001b0e4 in bootstrap_look_up ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #5  0x9001af30 in notify_register_check ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #6  0x9001ada7 in notify_register_tz ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #7  0x9001a621 in tzsetwall_basic ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #8  0x90041903 in localtime ()
> No symbol table info available.

All of the above functions are OSX's internal functions in libc.

> #9  0x0007ba2f in mail_index_update_day_headers ()

So Dovecot calls localtime() and the process hangs. Something's badly
broken in your system related to timezone handling, nothing Dovecot can
do about it..