dovecot - Feb 2012 - doveadm altmove fails to pack messages?

Hello again.

When I use doveadm altmove, I notice that it may result in some very  
small storage files in either the primary or the alternate storage  
location. I'm not quite sure, but it almost seems like every storage  
file that contains messages to be moved is simply split into two  
parts, even if a part might only contain a single message.

This seems quite curious, since the idea of mdbox is after all to  
store as many messages in a single file as fits in mdbox_rotate_size,  
and dovecot-lda can quite successfully append messages to existing  
storage files. So why can't doveadm altmove? Is this the expected  
behavior, or is there something wrong with my setup?

Thanks again,


Lauri

On 1.2.2012, at 19.59, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> When I use doveadm altmove, I notice that it may result in some very small
storage files in either the primary or the alternate storage location. I'm
not quite sure, but it almost seems like every storage file that contains
messages to be moved is simply split into two parts, even if a part might only
contain a single message.
> 
> This seems quite curious, since the idea of mdbox is after all to store as
many messages in a single file as fits in mdbox_rotate_size, and dovecot-lda can
quite successfully append messages to existing storage files. So why can't
doveadm altmove? Is this the expected behavior, or is there something wrong with
my setup?
Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/d83356f1fce6