dovecot - Sep 2006 - which e-mail client can work with recent dovecot?

Hi,
I'm trying to use dovecot-1.0.rc7.

Before I've used dovecot-1.0 from nightly cvs build of August 08, 2006.
It worked perfectly, on Linux 64-bit, you can see spec and patches at
http://www.sisyphus.ru/srpm/dovecot/

When I tried to upgrade to rc7 and to recent nightly cvs builds with the
same configuration and patches (provided necessary adaptations), it
builds O.K, but can not move messages from folder to folder.

I've tried the following mail clients: thunderbird-1.5.0.7,
evolution-2.0.2, sylpheed-claws-2.0 and KMail-1.7.1 (all from
Centos-4.4). KMail refuses to copy (or to move) multiple selected
messages, saying:" Error while copying messages.Connection to Server
Closed Unexpectedly ...". Evolution is not able to open folders at 3-rd
level (like dovecot/2006/09), or it is so slow that I was not able to
test moving/copying messages in it. Sylpheed-claws died whan I tried
this message copying. Thunderbird tries to move infinetly in a loop,
filling the dovecot's log with lines:
---
Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<seriv>,
method=plain, rip=66.80.117.2, lip=192.168.10.8, TLS
Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: IMAP(seriv): file
mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed:
(fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size)
Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: child 25177 (imap) killed with signal 6
Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<seriv>,
method=plain, rip=66.80.117.2, lip=192.168.10.8, TLS
Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: IMAP(seriv): file
mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed:
(fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size)
Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: child 25183 (imap) killed with signal 6
---
(approximitely 2 cicles per second).

And when I reinstalled back the previously worked version of dovecot,
the problem remains.

-- 
With best regards,
  Sergey Ivanov.

I'd like to provide additional information about this problem:

1. $ grep -v '^ *#' /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf |grep -v '^ *$'
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_cert_file = /etc/postfix/cert.pem
ssl_key_file = /etc/postfix/key.pem
default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/.imap
lock_method = fcntl
protocol imap {
}
protocol pop3 {
  pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}
protocol lda {
  postmaster_address = postmaster at localhost.localdomain
}
auth default {
  mechanisms = plain
  passdb pam {
  }
  userdb passwd {
  }
  user = root
}
plugin {
}

2. I've tried with lock_method=flock with the same results.

3. Thunderbird easily copy/move multiple messages from dovecot's folders
to local mail folders and from local mail folders to dovecot's, so I
have now workaround for this dovecot's problem.

-- 
	Sergey Ivanov.

Sergey Ivanov wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use dovecot-1.0.rc7.
> 
> Before I've used dovecot-1.0 from nightly cvs build of August 08, 2006.
> It worked perfectly, on Linux 64-bit, you can see spec and patches at
> http://www.sisyphus.ru/srpm/dovecot/
> 
> When I tried to upgrade to rc7 and to recent nightly cvs builds with the
> same configuration and patches (provided necessary adaptations), it
> builds O.K, but can not move messages from folder to folder.
> 
> I've tried the following mail clients: thunderbird-1.5.0.7,
> evolution-2.0.2, sylpheed-claws-2.0 and KMail-1.7.1 (all from
> Centos-4.4). KMail refuses to copy (or to move) multiple selected
> messages, saying:" Error while copying messages.Connection to Server
> Closed Unexpectedly ...". Evolution is not able to open folders at
3-rd
> level (like dovecot/2006/09), or it is so slow that I was not able to
> test moving/copying messages in it. Sylpheed-claws died whan I tried
> this message copying. Thunderbird tries to move infinetly in a loop,
> filling the dovecot's log with lines:
> ---
> Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<seriv>,
> method=plain, rip=66.80.117.2, lip=192.168.10.8, TLS
> Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: IMAP(seriv): file
> mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed:
> (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size)
> Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: child 25177 (imap) killed with signal 6
> Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<seriv>,
> method=plain, rip=66.80.117.2, lip=192.168.10.8, TLS
> Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: IMAP(seriv): file
> mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed:
> (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size)
> Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: child 25183 (imap) killed with signal 6
> ---
> (approximitely 2 cicles per second).
> 
> And when I reinstalled back the previously worked version of dovecot,
> the problem remains.
>

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:40 -0400, Sergey Ivanov wrote:
> mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed:
> (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size)
> Sep 28 12:56:25 alt64 dovecot: child 25177 (imap) killed with signal 6
In case you haven't figured this out, it's because you've moved the
index files from 32bit system to 64bit system and there's a bug
somewhere causing this crash. Just delete all dovecot.index.cache files.

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