Got it ...Thanks a ton Steffen. :)
Regards, Kavish Karkera ________________________________ From: Steffen Kaiser <skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> To: Kavish Karkera <kavish.kark...@yahoo.com> Cc: "dovecot@dovecot.org" <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Thursday, 25 July 2013 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Duplicate Mails downloding issue -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Kavish Karkera wrote: > Thanks Steffen for the valuable knowledge. > Need to know futher that, how could this lead to mails to get re-downloaded. > ?? Because Dovecot detects that the UID list is erroreous and therefore rebuilts it. To prevent data loss, either the complete list of messages or just the conflicting ones [the messages that had been delivered in parallel and caused the while problem] do appear as new to the clients. > ________________________________ > From: Steffen Kaiser <skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> > To: Kavish Karkera <kavish.kark...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "dovecot@dovecot.org" <dovecot@dovecot.org> > Sent: Thursday, 25 July 2013 5:54 PM > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Duplicate Mails downloding issue > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Kavish Karkera wrote: > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Jul 23 15:34:51 popserver dovecot: pop3(14949_kavish): Warning: Locking >> transaction log file >> /indexes//mail/v3store/example.com/14949_kavish/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log >> took 133 seconds > > some process keeps the INBOX locked, but does not touch the file, so it > looks like a stale lock. > >> Jul 23 15:34:51 popserver dovecot: pop3(kav...@example.com): Error: Broken >> file /indexes//mail/v3store/example.com/14949_kavish/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist >> line 180: UIDs not ordered (10156 >= 10156) > > Therefore some other process had broken the lock and had appended a > message. > >> Jul 23 15:35:01 popserver dovecot: pop3(kav...@example.com): Error: >> utime(/indexes//mail/v3store/example.com/kavish/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.lock) >> failed: No such file or directory >> >> Jul 23 15:35:11 popserver dovecot: pop3(kav...@example.com): Error: >> utime(/indexes//mail/v3store/example.com/kavish/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.lock) >> failed: No such file or directory > > then the former process(es) finish and try to clean up, but the "some > other process" already deleted the lock file. > >> Jul 23 15:35:21 popserver dovecot: pop3(kav...@example.com): Warning: Our >> dotlock file >> /indexes//mail/v3store/example.com/kavish/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist.lock was >> deleted (kept it 30 secs) >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > So you have to check your system why a process, that as locked INBOX, is > stalled for more than 120min. > > - -- > Steffen Kaiser > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEVAwUBUfEY6F3r2wJMiz2NAQICHwf9HJG66UAHGJp1nT8Ql31n1Bk1KWb+wAhA > p2nReYZVSbzZOJM84Dkw8xLu3WoHzFxFEIS+CJc7xGtaeWGrwrTik6d7LKjwI9gf > HCun1rq9VzfS85sHvn1owVJxMnUrA3YcY90aQZ6SWHNwvrdmmqqIPhQdGx7xc3En > N1jJ0wPEd9hbJyi+2MScZt0WxKuRR+Wpkl14gO6ZPcX95uONGzLcSTs071rAXT+c > 6RWLxn2jhruk4qUIm+PGnHkwXTnKL2Dqfladj4/ybxTRn2hgNldK8w4piUwwPWIn > HW/hN+sDM/hlRtyu0zHVfiFC7MES6s0JonzwDlOKAFt9dUUG4Mcr9Q== > =mar+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBUfE3PV3r2wJMiz2NAQKdzAf9HY90QTSszIhaz7pMHYbQBMMU4XEiNBFU 3beZQLuZpYrw1aKr8xJB87DWcfyeULRgiEdWs6uSWgpYnmXYSBjDWV16HYW6+pY8 LTWr1tSY6AzUOxypx8GZfwQFhAmntwfFpoi/JiU8tDnEx2e1W44+V9hzDS4Kfy9i MQDDHRCOZL0cArAQ1DleXrQGnKY/Haa3clBfR72E/UdnGWzuGYxpORbHe9VUK8IP XrNUX1vV6RuS/cxg0/kLoVHk+0YAJCOk9kT2r2t9ZRSxSFHdzm8L/nTnQAgB+ZCR H9lNQxzi6UsRV8hT5mazMmIctW4BQsrJELV/5iWNoMDNxrYVH3Cqlg== =i01T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
