Hi! > Somehow Dovecot thinks that the mbox file changed under it..
Yes. And it's probably right, but I wonder what could have changed it. I looked around inotify and it seems there is no way to let a file being watched and get program names/pids of processes accessing it. > These mbox corruptions are usually pretty difficult to reproduce (= > impossible to fix without ability to reproduce). You could try if you can > (reliably) reproduce it in some way, e.g.: I can reproduce them multiple times a day :-). But not on command, and probably not on another machine, I know... > 1. Create a test folder: doveadm mailbox create -u krakonos testbox > 2. Use some combination of: > * Save mail(s) to test folder: cat some-mails | doveadm save -u krakonos > testbox > * Try to read mails from test folder: doveadm fetch -u krakonos text mailbox > testbox > /dev/null Well, that's something. doveadm-save doesn't have a manpage, and there is nothing about it on wiki. Is it something new? Also, it doesn't seem to work. > > The fetch should print similar errors to stderr in some way. I attempted to > reproduce this way with your msg-error.mbox, but it worked ok. > Thinking about it, it might be that I'm fetching the message just as dovecot delivers another one. Is it possible that fcntl locking is just not working? I'm running a bit older kernel, if that could play a role in it. I'll try to enable dotlock even on read and see if the problem persists. -- S pozdravem Ladislav "Krakonoš" Láska http://www.krakonos.org/