8 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] courier-imap -- s...
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLCJan 24, 2007 11:28 pm 
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLCJan 25, 2007 12:02 am 
Sergiy ZhukJan 25, 2007 12:26 am 
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLCJan 25, 2007 1:00 am 
Gordon MessmerJan 25, 2007 3:50 am 
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLCJan 25, 2007 12:28 pm 
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Subject:Re: [courier-users] courier-imap -- some accounts on NFS mounted disks getting messed up on expungeActions...
From:Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC (chad@shire.net)
Date:Jan 25, 2007 1:00:38 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

On Jan 25, 2007, at 1:26 AM, Sergiy Zhuk wrote:

hi

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

Now it looks like this

A B D E F G

but if I click, say E, it has F's contents, F has Gs contents, and no mail has D's contents that I can see. But the list in the mail client list view is correct.

So, courier is apparently opening the wrong file or it's getting incorrect data from the disk cache when it's trying to read the next message file. If you 'cat' those files on your server at the same time when you open messages in your mail client, do you get the correct content (from cat) ?

yes, I appear to get the correct content from the cat.

I did the following twice:

I got a list of about 15 messages that were listed together one after the other in the mail client. I looked at each one and wrote down its message id (exim MTA) and then grep'ed that ID in the mailstore to identify which file name was with with message. I did a cat to makes sure I was right.

I then did the delete and purge. I then started clicking on the messages. Sometimes it starts with the first message after the deleted one and sometimes it starts 5 or 6 down the list. But I was able to start at the one that was showing up wrong and cat it on disk on the nfs client and it still had the correct data in it. So either the mail client or courier seems to be messing up.

Will try and get the same tests done in Thunderbird to see if the problem is the exact same symptoms or just close enough to confuse me...

And the nfs server has the ZFS option turned on to NOT update the last accessed date for when the file is accessed for reading.

It shouldn't matter, I don't update access times on the filer either.

ok. Didn't think so but you never know :-)

If you've built courier with FAM, try disabling this first just in case.

I did not explicitly turn this on so I assume it is built witthout FAM.

If you've built it from ports, I think it's enabled by default and it's not even FAM, but a FAM's replacement.

I built it from source. I only use ports for "system level" tools like compilers, cvs, editors, etc. All my "application level" stuff I build from source :-)

A quick look at the INSTALL file in the source make me think that this FAM stuff or its replacement is not on by default (?)

I would try disabling it and if it doesn't help, try using a different nfs server to make sure it's not some solaris thing messing stuff up...

Will have to see if I have anything available I can use.

Do you have any special settings on the NetApps side or on the client nfs side?

Nope, some optimizations, which are mostly relevant to my particular setup, but default settings also work just fine.

OK, thanks

best Chad

--- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net