Re: [Exim] Corruption of mbox mailboxes

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Autor: Greg Ward
Datum:  
To: exim-users
CC: Odhiambo G. Washington
Betreff: Re: [Exim] Corruption of mbox mailboxes
On 18 June 2002, Odhiambo G. Washington said:
> I am running Exim on a box and I am delivering mail to mbox. The problem
> I am having is that ocassionally I end up with a corrupted mbox. I did
> a careful analysis and found that when the corruption happens, the last
> e-mail appended to the mbox does have it's last contents at the very
> top of the mbox file. I then have to manually edit the file to correct
> this anomally as the user is unable to access the maibox.


Locking problem perhaps? Can you show us the router (director) and
transport that you use for local delivery? Or is it done in the system
filter, or user filter, or what?

> I am attaching one of such mbox that I used for analysis.


Ouch! Some people have to pay for bandwidth you know -- a 900 kB
message on a public mailing list is *not* nice! Never mind privacy
concerns...

        Greg