[Dovecot] dovecot 2.2.0 corrupts mailboxes?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 15.5.2013, at 20.33, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu at netbsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:50:55PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> There are some locking code changes between v2.1 and v2.2, which
>> I guess might be buggy. But I can't reproduce any corruption with
>> stress testing. What's your doveconf -n output? Are you delivering
>> mails via dovecot-lda or something external?
> 
> dovecot -n is below. dovecot takes care of delivery, through LMTP.
> 
> Additionnal thoughts on possible problems:
> - one of the users was using mutt locally and  accessed its mailbox directly
> without going through dovecot.

That shouldn't cause problems if locking was configured the same.

> - I experimented dsync replication from another machine that was not
> accessible through POP/IMAP/SMTP, perhaps this is what caused chaos?

That might cause trouble. I tested today and dsync was doing some strange things with mbox.