On Fri, March 16, 2007 8:29, Jason Byrns said: >>> Ever see the problem of mail files getting random lines of crap up top? >> >> Yes. I see incorrectly parsed messages, when I modify messages stored in >> maildir. It looks like Dovecot (Debian Etch package) caches file >> information and does not detect header size changes. Removal of dovecot >> cache files fixes the issue. > > All our accounts are in mbox format (all messages in one big file). But > it certainly sounds like Dovecot is our problem, now. > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxProblems > > Too bad Dovecot is buggy, I guess? That sucks. Especially as the > standard POP/IMAP daemon for Redhat Enterprise (and CentOS). > > Any way to prevent these problems with Dovecot?? (I'll probably go > looking for a Dovecot mailing list soon) > > -- > Jason Byrns > Production Manager > System Administrator > http://www.MicroLnk.com/ > 402-328-8600 ext. 653 > any reason not to switch to Maildir format? Occasionally I saw a disconnect between the message header's that SM reported and the body. It would resolve itself when I logged out and back into SM. We are on debian Sarge and use SquirrelMail 1.4.4 (debian patched version). I haven't seen this issue in about six months. We switched between mbox and maildir using a script mb2md and 2md.pl Basically we used the first to convert /var/spool/mail (or /var/mail depending on your setup) and then applied the 2md.pl to each of the mboxes in the user's IMAP store. We use procmail so we also added a MAILDIR=... line to the top of the .procmailrc file for each user. That way we converted each user, one at a time to the Maildir format. Vast speed increase. ------ William R. Mussatto Systems Engineer http://www.csz.com 909-920-9154 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
