Checking index sanity

Emmanuel Dreyfus manu at netbsd.org
Thu Feb 25 10:34:46 UTC 2016


Hello

We experienced corrupted dovecot indexes, probably caused by a server
crash. This does not cause a lot of harm, just annoyance. For instance,
LMTP raises an assertion during delivery, which causes mail to multiple 
recipients e-mail to remain in the queue if a single of them hits a 
corrupted index.

The workaround for now is to detect the situation in the logs and to remove 
corrupted indexes when the problem arise.

A better fix would be to sanity check all user's index on startup. Is 
there a command line tool to do this?

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu at netbsd.org


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