Package: syncmaildir Version: 1.3.0-1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/gares/syncmaildir/issues/18
I have experienced, twice, a situation in which SMD has attempted to destroy my entire mail spool. In both cases I noticed before it managed to delete it all, but it did manage to do a lot of damage which took a long time to recover from. The details of the crashes are in those two blog posts: https://anarc.at/blog/2021-03-22-email-crash/ https://anarc.at/blog/2021-06-29-another-mail-crash/ I have also filed the following upstream bug in which they confirm the issue: https://github.com/gares/syncmaildir/issues/18 Since then, the upstream project has been archived and basically abandoned. I would strongly recommend against shipping SMD in Debian stable in the forseeable future, unless serious work is started to improve its reliability and stability. I have deliberately marked this bug as "grave" for that reason. I have also found subtle mailbox corruption issues when syncing against a Dovecot server, which are not directly related to this bug (and therefore could warrant a separate one), but I figured one would be good enough to start with. Details of that corruption (and recovery) are in: https://anarc.at/blog/2021-11-21-one-last-smd-crash/ I discuss alternatives in: https://anarc.at/blog/2021-11-21-mbsync-vs-offlineimap/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.1 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages syncmaildir depends on: ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1 ii lua5.1 5.1.5-8.1+b3 ii openssh-client 1:8.4p1-5 ii xdelta 1.1.3-9.3 syncmaildir recommends no packages. syncmaildir suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
