> On Jul 18, 2026, at 01:08, Doug Hardie <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am occasionally finding some strange characters in the log file. I have > captured on entry that vi cannot handle. It simply won't go past this > record. I suspect the issue is around 0347 in the record below. Any ideas > how to prevent this from happening as it makes it difficult to find specific > records in the log. vi is unable to delete the line with this issue. > > mail# head -1 imaplog.test | od -t x1c > 0000000 4a 75 6c 20 31 37 20 30 32 3a 33 34 3a 35 35 20 > J u l 1 7 0 2 : 3 4 : 5 5 > 0000020 6d 61 69 6c 20 64 6f 76 65 63 6f 74 5b 35 32 39 > m a i l d o v e c o t [ 5 2 9 > 0000040 30 5d 3a 20 69 6d 61 70 28 64 6f 75 67 29 5b 31 > 0 ] : i m a p ( d o u g ) [ 1 > 0000060 30 2e 30 2e 31 2e 32 33 32 5d 3c 4e 74 79 78 52 > 0 . 0 . 1 . 2 3 2 ] < N t y x R > 0000100 4d 74 57 4e 64 38 4b 41 41 48 6f 3e 3a 20 64 65 > M t W N d 8 K A A H o > : d e > 0000120 6c 65 74 65 3a 20 62 6f 78 3d 44 65 6c 65 74 65 > l e t e : b o x = D e l e t e > 0000140 64 20 4d 65 73 73 61 67 65 73 2c 20 75 69 64 3d > d M e s s a g e s , u i d = > 0000160 35 38 32 32 31 33 2c 20 6d 73 67 69 64 3d 3c 39 > 5 8 2 2 1 3 , m s g i d = < 9 > 0000200 31 30 35 30 36 39 31 2e 31 34 37 36 39 34 36 2e > 1 0 5 0 6 9 1 . 1 4 7 6 9 4 6 . > 0000220 31 37 38 33 35 38 37 39 33 35 37 36 36 40 6d 61 > 1 7 8 3 5 8 7 9 3 5 7 6 6 @ m a > 0000240 72 6b 65 74 6f 2d 70 6c 61 74 66 6f 72 6d 2d 2d > r k e t o - p l a t f o r m - - > 0000260 65 6d 61 69 6c 2d 73 65 6e 64 65 72 2d 70 72 6f > e m a i l - s e n d e r - p r o > 0000300 64 2d 62 61 74 63 68 2d 63 6c 75 2e 2e 2e 2c 20 > d - b a t c h - c l u . . . , > 0000320 73 69 7a 65 3d 35 35 39 39 30 2c 20 66 72 6f 6d > s i z e = 5 5 9 9 0 , f r o m > 0000340 3d 57 4f 52 4c 44 e2 4d 2d 5e 40 4d 2d 5e 59 73 > = W O R L D 342 M - ^ @ M - ^ Y s > 0000360 20 54 69 6d 20 4c 61 6d 65 72 20 3c 65 64 69 74 > T i m L a m e r < e d i t > 0000400 6f 72 40 77 6e 67 2e 6f 72 67 3e 0a > o r @ w n g . o r g > \n > 0000414 > > -- Doug >
Here is the corresponding postfix log entry: maillog.8.gz:Jul 9 02:05:44 mail postfix/cleanup[37269]: 4gwpw76RcYz1qpcj: message-id=<91050691.1476946.1783587935766@marketo-platform--email-sender-prod-batch-cluster-545fbbd7dmnt5> Is it possible that the message_id field might be too long? dovecot-2.3.21.1_3 (FreeBSD) -- Doug _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
