purge causing reappearing mails?

telsch telsch at gmx.de
Mon Sep 2 14:08:51 EEST 2019


Hello,

today i got reappearing mails again, but not from purging. In the logs i
only found this. I've got massive problems by many users because
reappearing mails. If you need more information, i could provide.


Sep 02 12:58:43 doveadm: Warning: Transaction log file
/var/spool/mail/<user>/storage/dovecot.map.index.log was locked for 43
second
s (mdbox storage rebuild)
Sep 02 12:58:43 doveadm: Warning: fscking index file
/var/spool/mail/<user>/storage/dovecot.map.index
Sep 02 12:58:43 doveadm: Warning: mdbox /var/spool/mail/<user>/storage:
rebuilding indexes
Sep 02 12:59:01 dsync-local(<user>)<esxhKpHzbF2jHQAA0H466A>: Error:
Couldn't lock /var/spool/mail/<user>/.dovecot-sync.lock:
fcntl(/var/spool/mail/<user>/.dovecot-sync.lock, write-lock, F_SETLKW)
locking failed: Timed out after 600 seconds (WRITE lock held by pid 7584)
Sep 02 12:59:34 doveadm: Warning: Transaction log file
/var/spool/mail/<user>/storage/dovecot.map.index.log was locked for 51
seconds (mdbox storage rebuild)
Sep 02 12:59:34 doveadm: Warning: fscking index file
/var/spool/mail/<user>/storage/dovecot.map.index
Sep 02 12:59:34 doveadm: Warning: fscking index file
/var/spool/mail/<user>/storage/dovecot.map.index
Sep 02 12:59:35 doveadm: Warning: mdbox /var/spool/mail/<user>/storage:
rebuilding indexes
Sep 02 13:00:22 doveadm: Warning: Transaction log file
/var/spool/mail/<user>/storage/dovecot.map.index.log was locked for 48
seconds (mdbox storage rebuild)
Sep 02 13:00:23 doveadm: Warning: fscking index file
/var/spool/mail/<user>/storage/dovecot.map.index

On 26.08.19 18:06, sch tel via dovecot wrote:
> Hello,
> i'm running 2 dovecot 2.3.4.1 servers with replication. once a week
> purge command is executed. but from time to time it seems there are
> deleted messages reappering after purge is executed. so i run in debug
> mode. i saw in the past a few questions about reappearing messages here
> on list.
> doveadm -v -D purge -A
> doveadm(user): Error: Corrupted dbox file
> /var/spool/mail/user/storage/m.10603 (around offset=7148503): invalid
> metadata magic
> doveadm(user): Warning: fscking index file
> /var/spool/mail/user/storage/dovecot.map.index
> doveadm(user): Warning: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: rebuilding
> indexes
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> bc4aa501fc4f7df7ac275f8c79279ff5 in m.2171:525629 (size=2026) and
> m.855:946779 (size=1784)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> b48e29a402f8683e7c91f32d16c52936 in m.2086:305158 (size=89091) and
> m.2732:614638 (size=88842)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> 43d2f95804075dc336d8c4224bbba0b5 in m.2290:1234440 (size=1942) and
> m.9021:224875 (size=1943)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> df24cd27a10a8d431e01fabc157e66d0 in m.756:16 (size=47961) and
> m.1133:1693832 (size=47960)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> 6e196b915f37623455521cc591b15294 in m.2263:63985 (size=2036) and
> m.1933:21800 (size=2037)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> 7e890f08cef769c1800d24fd2c206c2d in m.2133:1658427 (size=64459) and
> m.2268:1012431 (size=64193)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> ab95f2c3b9df8950518e8064f1a89b2a in m.2133:827558 (size=23629) and
> m.2268:1304070 (size=23637)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> f4a82d0705e4072908ea4937ff49a6e1 in m.2144:1673818 (size=4380) and
> m.1638:2079685 (size=4117)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> 82e1f95de0473e0425ce5e81055e6578 in m.1322:16 (size=2264817) and
> m.1280:16 (size=2264818)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> 144c8f800e3201960cc197ea47169691 in m.2140:1820601 (size=2396) and
> m.2003:275867 (size=2127)
> doveadm(user): Error: mdbox /var/spool/mail/user/storage: Duplicate GUID
> 52ea5e1729d92b384efd7b8796c798b5 in m.2268:1774031 (size=5661) and
> m.2292:117114 (size=5665)
> doveadm(user): Error: Corrupted dbox file
> /var/spool/mail/user/storage/m.10603 (around offset=7148503): metadata
> header has bad magic value
> doveadm(user): Warning: dbox: Copy of the broken file saved to
> /var/spool/mail/user/storage/m.10603.broken


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