[Dovecot] doveadm index crashes when indexing shared mailboxes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Jun 16 20:21:54 EEST 2013


On 10.6.2013, at 14.56, W. de Hoog <wdehoog at exalondelft.nl> wrote:

> We store our mail archive in a tree of subfolders. I am trying to speed up text searching on our mail archive but when running "doveadm -D -v index -u neil shared/Exalon/Aandeelhouders" the following output is produced:
..
> doveadm(neil): Panic: file mbox-storage.c: line 711 (mbox_transaction_unlock): assertion failed: (mbox->box.transaction_count >                                                       0 || mbox->mbox_lock_type == F_UNLCK)

mbox is a pretty difficult format, and I wouldn't recommend using it for anything else than small simple legacy setups.

> # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

If this happens also with v2.2 I could look into it.



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