Dovecot 2.2.16: disappearing messages, mismatched summaries, duplicated messages, excessive full re-downloads

[David Gessel]

Edgar, thanks for the help!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Dovecot 2.2.16: disappearing messages, mismatched summaries, duplicated messages, excessive full re-downloads
From: Edgar Pettijohn III <edgar at pettijohn-web.com>
To: David Gessel <gessel at blackrosetech.com>
Date: Sat Apr 18 2015 16:30:07 GMT+0300 (Arabic Standard Time)

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> On Apr 18, 2015, at 8:00 AM, David Gessel wrote:
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: Dovecot 2.2.16: disappearing messages, mismatched summaries, duplicated messages, excessive full re-downloads
>> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
>> To: David Gessel <gessel at blackrosetech.com>
>> Date: Sat Apr 18 2015 15:48:28 GMT+0300 (Arabic Standard Time)
>>
>>> No. My best guess is that (your) ZFS+FreeBSD is simply not behaving the way Dovecot wants filesystems to behave (readdir() sometimes skipping over files). I don't have any other suggestion than trying a different filesystem or OS. I haven't heard ZFS having these problems before though.
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>> Or migrating to sdbox.  Absent any further suggestions, that will be my next step.  My commitment to Maildir is far lower than my commitment to FreeBSD/ZFS.  It is just a historical preference coming from a decade+ of courier IMAP. 
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> 
> What is the output for:
> 
> # zpool status
> 
> perhaps you have a hardware issue?
> 

All good - quite reliable hardware:  IBM x3655 dual AMD quad core, 40GB of ECC RAM, 8x IBM 2.5" SAS on battery-backed ServeRAID, RAID 6 and (somewhat pointlessly) ZFS2.  All IBM server diagnostics check, full RAM check run without errors, no ECC corrections reported, no uncorrectable errors reported. 



 # zpool status
  pool: bootpool
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        bootpool    ONLINE       0     0     0
          aacd0s1a  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

  pool: zroot
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        zroot           ONLINE       0     0     0
          aacd0s1d.eli  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors