[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.15 - purge errors

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Jan 28 23:47:56 EET 2012


On 28.1.2012, at 23.04, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> 299692 - 291500 = 8192 = output stream's buffering size. I guess what happened is that sometimes earlier Dovecot crashed while it was saving a message, but it had managed to write 8192 bytes. Now purging notices the extra 8192 bytes and wonders what to do about them, so it starts index rebuild, which probably adds it as a new message to mailbox.
> 
> In future this check probably should be done before appending the next message to mdbox, so it's noticed earlier

Done: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/bde005e302e0

> and it probably should delete the message instead of adding a partially saved message to mailbox.

Not done. Safer to not delete any data.




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