Hello,
I wanted to report an issue we are still seeing that should go away but
does not seem to. We are running UW Imap v2006b compiled from source on
RedHat Enterprise Linux v3.0 and 4.0.
1. When some clients are using Outlook, they occasionally get a message
in Outlook such as
"Unexpected short mix message file --omitted-filename-- 6914093 < 6914337"
I understand that these are due to self-healing MIX issues, but I think
these messages should not be making it all the way to Outlook for the
clients to see. I have some clients that see these all the time when
purging messages and I have to just tell them to ignore them.
2. We have a process that runs every night on our email servers that
performs user-configured folder pruning actions. As of the use of MIX,
we get a bunch of errors every night from this process. Usually it is
on the same folders every night... so the problem is not healing itself
or is recurring. Due to privacy provisions, we cannot provide examples
of these folders themselves.
Examples of these errors include:
Mon Oct 16 03:55:25 2006 Mail::Cclient: [--removed-path--/BACKUP] error:
Backwards-running mix index 472141 < 472144
Mon Oct 16 04:01:32 2006 Mail::Cclient: [--removed-path--/BACKUP] error:
Backwards-running mix index 331339 < 331340
Mon Oct 16 04:03:49 2006 Mail::Cclient: [--removed-path--/INBOX] error:
Backwards-running mix index 1032647 < 1032662
Mon Oct 16 04:11:33 2006 Mail::Cclient: [--removed-path--/INBOX] error:
Unexpected short mix message file --removed-path--/INBOX/.mix452e988b 5439533 <
5439713
Mon Oct 16 04:13:06 2006 Mail::Cclient: [--removed-path--/INBOX] error:
Backwards-running mix index 426029 < 426044
Mon Oct 16 04:13:34 2006 Mail::Cclient: [--removed-path--/BACKUP] error:
Unexpected short mix message file --removed-path--/BACKUP/.mix452c49b2 6914093
< 6914337
Mon Oct 16 04:13:34 2006 Mail::Cclient: [--removed-path--/BACKUP] error:
Unexpected short mix message file --removed-path--/BACKUP/.mix452be05f 1441837
< 1441897
Mon Oct 16 04:15:23 2006 Mail::Cclient: [--removed-path--/TRASH] error:
Backwards-running mix index 1239274 < 1239275
Mon Oct 16 04:22:33 2006 Mail::Cclient: [--removed-path--/INBOX] error:
Unexpected short mix message file --removed-path--/INBOX/.mix4526aede 4128813 <
4129045
So my questions are:
* Since these are not fixing themselves, is there some command/utility
we can run on a folder to ensure these are fixed?
3. We have seen at least 1 case of a 72Mb MIX folder that had only 1
IMAP connection on it and which had no messages in it (even flagged as
deleted). I.e. the 72Mb of deleted messages had not been "burped" even
though it had been some time since the deletions and there was exclusive
access to only 1 process.
In what cases can that happen? Is there anything we can do to help our
folders "burp" (as Mark puts it)? This is imporant for users who have
limited space availability.
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