Re: [Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

2007-06-28 Thread Ronald MacDonald
It seems as if the flock does not have any effect on the corrupting of the transaction logs. Additionally, I would not be prepared to use dotlock as its performance is detrimental to the server's load at busy times. Ronald. On 27/06/07, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, ext3 would b

Re: [Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

2007-06-27 Thread Timo Sirainen
No, ext3 would be fine. I just thought /srv might point to NFS or something. This is a bit weird though. There shouldn't be any bugs like this with local filesystems. You could try if mmap_disable=no would change anything, or lock_method=flock or even lock_method=dotlock. On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 18

Re: [Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

2007-06-19 Thread Ronald MacDonald
Well, I am actually using ext3, how do you suspect this might affect the reliability of the transaction log? Ronald. On 19/06/07, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:04 +0100, Ronald MacDonald wrote: > dovecot: 2007-06-18 12:57:59 Error: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): C

Re: [Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

2007-06-19 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:04 +0100, Ronald MacDonald wrote: > dovecot: 2007-06-18 12:57:59 Error: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Corrupted > transaction log file > /srv/indexes/rmacd.com/r/ronald/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Seen counter wrong What filesystem do you use? signature.asc Description: This i

Re: [Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

2007-06-18 Thread Bruce Bodger
Sorry, Ronald. Had to say it before somebody else did. My kids LOVE your burgers!! :-)

Re: [Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

2007-06-18 Thread Ronald MacDonald
Yes, my mistake. Of course, I should have also posted my dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/additional.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s disable_plaintext_aut

Re: [Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

2007-06-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:13 +0100, Ronald MacDonald wrote: > Hi list, > > Overall, everything works fine, and all the emails are delivered without > anything messing up. But then, from time to time, the transaction logs for > some users become corrupted, meaning emails cannot be read at all from >

[Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

2007-06-18 Thread Ronald MacDonald
Hi list, Overall, everything works fine, and all the emails are delivered without anything messing up. But then, from time to time, the transaction logs for some users become corrupted, meaning emails cannot be read at all from dovecot. With a bit of a search on google, it seems to be a problem