Author: Anand Buddhdev Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] strange debug message when reading maildirsize file
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:58:33AM +0100, Philip Hazel 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.
Thanks for taking a look Philip. I'm going to turn off my list
delivery for a while, because I'm going to Bristol, Bath and then
Exeter for a Scrabble tournament. If you find the bug, and if you
don't mind, would you drop me an email?
