Angel L. Mateo
2013-Oct-24 10:37 UTC
[Dovecot] failed: Message has been copied too many times
Hello, I'm running dovecot 2.1.16 in a ubuntu 12.04 server, with lazy_expunge, SiS and mdbox format. The problem I'm having is that the index for one the mailboxes of one of my users is growing too much. This is not the first time of this problem. In previous cases, is because a message is duplicated thousand of times (I haven't found any reason for this). In these cases, moving messages to other folder and moving again to this same folder fixes the problem. So I have tried this, and I have moved all messages from this folder to another one. But this time, after this, indexes directory is still using a lot of space. And the folder seems to have more serious problems: amateo_adm at myotis51:~$ sudo doveadm search -u vlo mailbox BORRADOS.INBOX.MNCS doveadm(vlo): Error: Syncing mailbox BORRADOS.INBOX.MNCS failed: Message has been copied too many times (59306 + -1) I have tried to delete the folder, with the same result: amateo_adm at myotis51:~$ sudo doveadm mailbox delete -u vlo BORRADOS.INBOX.MNCS doveadm(vlo): Error: Can't delete mailbox BORRADOS.INBOX.MNCS: Message has been copied too many times (59306 + -1) And to purge user's mailbox, but it didn't fix the problem. PS: If this could help, BORRADOS. is the namespace used by lazy_expunge plugin. -- Angel L. Mateo Mart?nez Secci?n de Telem?tica ?rea de Tecnolog?as de la Informaci?n y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868887590 Fax: 868888337
Angel L. Mateo
2013-Oct-24 10:41 UTC
[Dovecot] failed: Message has been copied too many times
El 24/10/13 12:37, Angel L. Mateo escribi?:> Hello, > > I'm running dovecot 2.1.16 in a ubuntu 12.04 server, with > lazy_expunge, SiS and mdbox format. > > The problem I'm having is that the index for one the mailboxes of > one of my users is growing too much. This is not the first time of this > problem. In previous cases, is because a message is duplicated thousand > of times (I haven't found any reason for this). In these cases, moving > messages to other folder and moving again to this same folder fixes the > problem. So I have tried this, and I have moved all messages from this > folder to another one. > > But this time, after this, indexes directory is still using a lot > of space. And the folder seems to have more serious problems: > > amateo_adm at myotis51:~$ sudo doveadm search -u vlo mailbox > BORRADOS.INBOX.MNCS > doveadm(vlo): Error: Syncing mailbox BORRADOS.INBOX.MNCS failed: Message > has been copied too many times (59306 + -1) > > I have tried to delete the folder, with the same result: > > amateo_adm at myotis51:~$ sudo doveadm mailbox delete -u vlo > BORRADOS.INBOX.MNCS > doveadm(vlo): Error: Can't delete mailbox BORRADOS.INBOX.MNCS: Message > has been copied too many times (59306 + -1) > > And to purge user's mailbox, but it didn't fix the problem. > > PS: If this could help, BORRADOS. is the namespace used by lazy_expunge > plugin. >One more thing, when I said that the index has grown too much is because index directory for this mailbox folder is about 850MB, and the mailbox originally had about 3000 messages. This is the list of files in the index directory: root at myotis51:/mail/indexes/vl/vlo/expunged/mailboxes/INBOX/MNCS# ls -lh total 853M -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 127M oct 24 11:16 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 127M oct 24 11:02 dovecot.index.backup -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 186M oct 24 12:14 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 180M oct 24 12:36 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 138M oct 24 11:02 dovecot.index.log.2 -- Angel L. Mateo Mart?nez Secci?n de Telem?tica ?rea de Tecnolog?as de la Informaci?n y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868887590 Fax: 868888337