On Aug 26, 2011, at 10:30 PM, mail...@securitylabs.it wrote: > Il 26/08/2011 20:38, John Clements ha scritto: >> Dovecot is crashing occasionally for me. Today it crashed six times in >> quick succession, as I fired up a computer (Mac) I hadn't used in a while, >> and my mail application (Apple Mail) tried to synchronize many large >> mailboxes. >> >> The log entries look like this: >> >> Aug 26 10:26:15 computer dovecot: dovecot: child 23223 (imap) killed with >> signal 6 (core dumped) >> Aug 26 10:26:30 computer dovecot: IMAP(granitemon): Panic: file >> istream-raw-mbox.c: line 583 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion >> failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) > > Hello, > > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-March/047426.html > > dunno if it has been fixed in 1.2.16 or 1.2.17, you may try to upgrade to > 1.2.17 or apply the above patch.
Thanks for googling that for me... :) The tone of that message suggests that this core dump is probably not associated with data loss; any idea if that's true? Thanks and apologies for not doing enough homework, John Clements