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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Anand Buddhdev
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] strange debug message when reading maildirsize file
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> Maildrop, courier-imap and sqwebmail happily write data into these
> files without any problems, but exim seems to find a syntax error very
> often, and it forces a quota recalculation. This would be expensive on
> busy systems with large mailboxes.
>
> error in maildirsizefile: unexpected character 77: recalculating
>
> error in maildirsizefile: unexpected character 184: recalculating


I will take a look and see if I can spot anything in the code that might
cause this, but it doesn't sound as if it will be a straightforwardly
easy bug to fix.

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