Version? On Fri, Apr 22, 2016, at 21:47, Janne Peltonen via Info-cyrus wrote: > Hi! > > I've always thought that IMAP COPY should only say OK once the message file is > safely on the disk. So that it should block, should another imapd process be > holding a write lock to the folder. > > Now today I experienced something very weird. There was a shared folder. If I > tried to copy a message to it (speaking raw imap), I immediately got an OK. And > the folder metadata reflected the change. However, the message wasn't on the > disk. And wasn't retrievable using IMAP. > > I tried this multiple times. Frustrated, I ended up killing the active imapd > processes of all other users that had ACL rights to the folder. My messages > immediately appeared on disk and were retrievable by IMAP. As if they'd been > in-core of my imapd process and waiting for a chance to be flushed to disk. > Even if the imapd process had returned OK, which I'd thought would've meant > they'd already been written to disk. > > Now, apparently, one of the users had copied mission critical messages to said > folder and they had disappeared. Disappeared from the original folder and not > shown up in the destination folder. Which was the reason I started > investigating this. > > Now, after having killed the imapd processes, I seem to have permanently > deleted all the messages that might have been in-core of any of those processes > (that had told their clients that the messages would've been on disk, i.e. > COPY -> OK). I killed the imapd processes while thinking that 1) there could in > no way be the slightest possibility that the messages hadn't been flushed to > disk from the core of the imapd processes after COPY, as the imapd had answered > OK to the client's COPY command, SO 2) one of the other users' clients must > have had a rule that immediately moves the messages away. But apparently, this > wasn't the case. > > Has anyone else encountered something like this? > > > --Janne Peltonen > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > To Unsubscribe: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
