[Dovecot] Possible bug in v1.1.1

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Jul 20 17:26:13 EEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 15:14 +0300, John Wood wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I recently upgraded our server from Dovecot 1.0.14 to 1.1.1. I am building 
> using the FreeBSD ports system, so nothing is custom aside from the flags 
> set there.
> 
> dovecot fell down a few days after the update with:
> 
> pid 1823 (imap), uid 1000: exited on signal 11
> 
> the mail log shows:
> 
> Jul 4 14:36:07 hostname dovecot: IMAP(username): Corrupted index cache 
> file /home/username/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken MIME 
> parts for mail UID 10462
> 
> Jul 4 14:36:07 hostname dovecot: child 1823 (imap) killed with signal 11
> 
> unfortunately I do not have a core. The closest thing I could find in the 
> Changelog is:

Can you still reproduce this crash? http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
lists some things about how to get a core dump.

> Message that caused the crash: attached

I doubt the message itself had anything to do with it. Just deleting
dovecot.index.cache probably fixes the issue?

Anyway I just tried causing the "Broken MIME parts" error myself. I
couldn't get Dovecot to crash (and the problem got fixed automatically).
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