[Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Brett Dikeman
Greetings all, After running for more than a year without issue on debian lenny while it was in the testing- we're now experiencing problems under Lenny/Stable. Dovecot now converts some sort of lockfile into messages, and they're owned by root. The result is a mess; clients can't read their

Re: [Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:23 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote: Apr 22 00:08:34 host dovecot: IMAP(user): Fixed a duplicate: 1240289413.9181_0.host:2,S.lock - 1240373314.P6717Q0M159857.host Something's very wrong if .lock files are created to Maildir mail files. It looks as if the Maildir is somehow

Re: [Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Brett Dikeman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:23 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote: Apr 22 00:08:34 host dovecot: IMAP(user): Fixed a duplicate: 1240289413.9181_0.host:2,S.lock - 1240373314.P6717Q0M159857.host Something's very wrong if .lock files are

Re: [Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 4/22/2009, Brett Dikeman (brett.dike...@gmail.com) wrote: The lock files are one possible problem, but it is a HUGE problem that Dovecot is converting them into root-owned zero-length emails! Do you have proof that it is dovecot doing this? -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:33 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote: Apr 22 00:08:34 host dovecot: IMAP(user): Fixed a duplicate: 1240289413.9181_0.host:2,S.lock - 1240373314.P6717Q0M159857.host Something's very wrong if .lock files are created to Maildir mail files. It looks as if the Maildir is

Re: [Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Brett Dikeman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 4/22/2009, Brett Dikeman (brett.dike...@gmail.com) wrote: The lock files are one possible problem, but it is a HUGE problem that Dovecot is converting them into root-owned zero-length emails! Do you have proof

Re: [Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 07:12, Brett Dikeman wrote: Further checking- the affected messages are not the result of some contention between procmail and dovecot; one of the affected messages came in at 11AM the day before the lockfile was renamed. Brett have you disabled procmail to

Re: [Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Brett Dikeman wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 4/22/2009, Brett Dikeman (brett.dike...@gmail.com) wrote: The lock files are one possible problem, but it is a HUGE problem that Dovecot is converting them into root-owned

Re: [Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Brett Dikeman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Daniel L. Miller dmil...@amfes.com wrote: How is /var/spool/mail mounted (local disk or network)?  What filesystem is it using? Please read my original message. We're in the process of eliminating our backup software (Networker.) The directives were changed