[Dovecot-news] v2.2.29.rc1 released

[Aki Tuomi]

> On April 7, 2017 at 9:38 AM Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
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> On 7 Apr 2017, at 2.25, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Apr 6, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> >> Planning to release v2.2.29 on Monday. Please find and report any bugs before that.
> > 
> > I'm seeing still seeing the assert that started showing up for me with 2.2.28 (https://www.dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2017-February/107250.html)
> > 
> > Below I generate it using doveadm with dovecot 2.2.29rc1 (output slightly cleaned up so the backtrace is easier to read)
> > 
> > % sudo doveadm index -A \*
> > doveadm(dluke): Panic: file mailbox-list.c: line 1159 (mailbox_list_try_mkdir_root): assertion failed: (strncmp(root_dir, path, strlen(root_dir)) == 0)
> 
> This is with mbox? I thought this had been happening already a long time.. Or if not mbox, what's your doveconf -n?

for mbox and lucene, there is a workaround, which is to create directory under the INDEXES directory called lucene-indexes.

This way the directory creation is not attempted, this is a known bug, but just hasn't been fixed yet.

Aki