Re: Re: Re: Dovecot duplicating emails

[Alexander <alexander@banthien.net>]

Hi guys,

after a lot of grief and a bit of experimenting around, I think I have 
now found a (the?) solution. I was missing the package inotify-tools on 
my system. I came across it reading about dovecot using inotify on Linux 
systems.

After installation of this package, my email duplication issue went away 
(~24 hours running now). No other installs were done. (Debian Etch 
ungraded from Sarge, still using dovecot1.0.0-1~bpo.1 (dovecot-common 
and dovecot-imap) on Intel hardware with IDE disk and ext3, Maildirs in 
home directories. Maildirs fairly large with several GB)

So the question is: should the dovecot package have the inotify package 
as a dependency?


Alexander


Just to summarise what I have found:
qmail was repeat delivering email to the Maildirs. Each delivery was 
reported as  deferral: Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)/ in 
the qmail log. But while the message already existed in copy in the 
Maildir it was not removed from the qmail queue and so qmail would try 
again according to its redelivery schedule, causing the same error as above.
I found that when stopping dovecot (safer than just closing the mail 
reader) the mails eventually did get delivered one last time and 
properly to the Maildir with the qmail queue flushed.

Thanks to anyone who helped.

Alexander

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