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<p class="default-style">Hi all,<br></p>
<p class="default-style">I am using dovecot-2.3.17_1 on FreeBSD system.<br></p>
<p class="default-style">This server offers webmail, pop3 and imap access for users.<br></p>
<p class="default-style">Today I am receiving several complaints from users about slowness and/or access issues.<br></p>
<p class="default-style">I checked on my /var/log/maillog and I see lots of:<br></p>
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<p class="default-style">Error: Timeout (180s) while waiting for lock for transaction log file /var/domains/domain.it/username/Maildir/dovecot.list.index.log (WRITE lock held by pid 84939)</p>
<p class="default-style">Error: Corrupted transaction log file /var/domains/domain.it/otherusername/Maildir/dovecot.list.index.log seq 2: indexid changed: 1643184505 -> 1643205059 (sync_offset=0)</p>
<p class="default-style">Error: Transaction log file /var/domains/otherdomain.net/otheruser/Maildir/dovecot.list.index.log: marked corrupted</p>
<p class="default-style">Not all users seem affected. My mailbox, for example, is working fine.<br></p>
<p class="default-style">I checked on my disks (this is a ZFS volume) and I didn't find errors/warnings.<br></p>
<p class="default-style">Any suggestion?<br></p>
<p class="default-style">This is my dovecot configuration:<br></p>
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<p class="default-style"># dovecot -n<br># 2.3.17 (e2aa53df5b): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf<br># OS: FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p6 amd64 zfs<br># Hostname: mailserver.domain.it<br>auth_debug = yes<br>auth_mechanisms = plain login<br>auth_verbose = yes<br>default_client_limit = 2000<br>default_process_limit = 500<br>default_vsz_limit = 512 M<br>disable_plaintext_auth = no<br>first_valid_gid = 125<br>first_valid_uid = 125<br>imap_id_log = *<br>mail_gid = 1003<br>mail_location = maildir:/mail/domains<br>mail_privileged_group = postfix<br>mail_uid = 1003<br>namespace inbox {<br>inbox = yes<br>location = <br>mailbox Drafts {<br>special_use = \Drafts<br>}<br>mailbox Junk {<br>special_use = \Junk<br>}<br>mailbox Sent {<br>special_use = \Sent<br>}<br>mailbox "Sent Messages" {<br>special_use = \Sent<br>}<br>mailbox Trash {<br>special_use = \Trash<br>}<br>prefix = <br>}<br>passdb {<br>args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-crypt.conf.ext<br>driver = sql<br>}<br>service auth {<br>unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {<br>group = postfix<br>mode = 0666<br>user = postfix<br>}<br>unix_listener auth-userdb {<br>group = postfix<br>mode = 0600<br>user = postfix<br>}<br>}<br>service imap {<br>process_limit = 1536<br>}<br>service lmtp {<br>unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {<br>group = postfix<br>mode = 0600<br>user = postfix<br>}<br>}<br>ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/wildcard.domain.net_bundle.crt<br>ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it<br>userdb {<br>args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-crypt.conf.ext<br>driver = sql<br>}<br>protocol imap {<br>mail_max_userip_connections = 100<br>}</p>
<p class="default-style">Thank you very much<br></p>
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