Corrupt index files

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Tue Aug 1 09:27:55 EEST 2017


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On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Bruce Guenter wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 07:56:23PM +0300, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> Well, dovecot does not really guarantee access concurrency safety if you access indexes using more than one instance of dovecot at the same time.
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but how does Dovecot handle when an IMAP client
> connects multiple times concurrently? Does it not launch multiple
> instances?

Aki means that multiple physically instances of Dovecot may access the 
index files not cleanly.

If there is one instance only and you connect to this single instance 
multiple times, there is no problem.

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Steffen Kaiser
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