[NCLUG] Problems with dovecot

Paul Hummer paul at eventuallyanyway.com
Mon Sep 22 10:59:17 MDT 2008


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Because I do significant amounts of work from my desktop and from my
laptop, it's been important to me that both systems have access to my
mail.  Because of this, I've set the following system up:

fetchmail is set up to grab mail from my many email addresses.  It then
puts that mail through procmail for filtering, and eventually, that mail
makes it into a Maildir.  That Maildir is served via IMAP with dovecot,
so all I need to do is connect to that system via IMAP, and I have all
my mail.

It's been working very well, until about a week ago.  That's when I
started having issues deleting things.  I would select a bunch of emails
in Thunderbird, and then delete them.  The status bar would say
"Deleting messages" forever, continue to grind, and keep me from reading
new messages.  I would have to close down Thunderbird and open it back
up to read messages, but the emails marked for deletion weren't being
deleted.

I stopped dovecot, removed the dovecot indexes, and started it back up
again.  This didn't help.  I thought maybe because of the mass of email,
there were some problems, so I manually deleted emails from many of the
mailing lists that I follow, and tried to re-index again, to no avail.
I can't seem to find the log file for dovecot, and so I'm having a hard
time debugging this.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks in figuring out what's wrong.  I'm
quite close to just installing dovecot with debugging symbols and attach
gdb to it.  I hope it doesn't come to that.


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Paul Hummer

http://theironlion.net

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