[Dovecot] zlib maildir reindex broken
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Fri May 2 10:37:09 UTC 2014
On 24.4.2014, at 0.51, Richard Platel <rplatel at tucows.com> wrote:
> I posted to the list about this a while ago but never got a response, I have a bit more information now.
>
> Dovecot 2.2.12 and other 2.2 versions are broken when using zlib and maildir. If messages are re-indexed, the INTERNALDATE of all messages is set to the time the re-index is done.
>
> The problem seems to be in src/plugins/zlib/zlib-plugin.c in the function zlib_mail_cache_open.
>
> During a reindex maildir_mail_get_received_date() does an i_stream_stat on the the i_stream_seekable stream created in zlib_mail_cache_open, but this istream does not know about the original maildir message file and always returns the current time for the file's stat times.
>
> This is also broken on initial index, but if mail is indexed when it's received (ours isn't) it coincidentally gets the right time.
Thanks, fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/9f1460682295
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