dovecot at quartzcrystal.org
2007-Feb-02 03:47 UTC
[Dovecot] mailbox corruption by pop3 access
I have about 30 pop3 users at my dovecot server, and sometime there's mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/userid) are corrupt. Troubled mailbox contains unnecessary 2 lines on head of file. Example is follow... ------------------------ .93C7E660-->From xxxxxx at xxxxx.com Tue Jan 16 19:29:21:2007------------------------ 3rd and following lines has no plobrem. Maybe, this first line is last line of previous mail. But I don't know why it was leaved. At such cases, when user tried to get his mail by pop3 client on remote host, and close connection by server immidiate. ------------------------ -ERR Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file Connection closed by foreign host. ------------------------ Every time I delete 2 lines from his mailbox to restore on server console when it corrupt. Has anyone such problem? OS: RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Dovecot version: 0.99.11-4.EL4 (RH official rpm)
On 2.2.2007, at 5.47, dovecot at quartzcrystal.org wrote:> I have about 30 pop3 users at my dovecot server, and sometime > there's mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/userid) are corrupt. > Troubled mailbox contains unnecessary 2 lines on head of file...> Dovecot version: 0.99.11-4.EL4 (RH official rpm)Yes, this is a known problem with 0.99.x version. I never figured out why it happens. In 1.0rc versions the mbox code has been rewritten and this doesn't happen anymore. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070202/c4c8315b/attachment.bin>