Corruption of index files

[Andreas Schulze]

Oliver Welter:
> >after upgrading my mail server (dovecot 1.1.7 -> 2.2.13) I get tons of
> >messages about corrupted index files in the syslog ("Error: Corrupted
> >transaction log" and "Warning: fscking index file .. dovecot.index".
> >
> Some more debugging - I did a "fuser" on a broken dovecot.index file
> and see a lot of stale file handles, looks like something is not
> cleaning up. Any ideas are still welcome....

if your using classic maildir format I would try to completly remove
any dovecot index files.

my guess: the existing index files are /so old/
dovecot is unable to repair them in a propper way.

Andreas