kolabmailboxfilter.php[8560]: Error: Failed to set recipient ...

Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 13:10:39 CET 2007


Thx for this detailed analyze.

My confidence is restored now I know this is error in the error message :-)


On 3/20/07, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Alain,
>
> > I got this message when a script was sending 14 emails, 2 mails failed
> at first try, but were finally delivered 27min later !
> >
> > As you can see, emails send before and after didn't encounter any
> problems.
> > It looks like a race condition, but the server was not doing anything a
> that time !
> > I retried to reproduce the problem, but without success !
> > This is a Kolab 2.1 beta4
> >
> > I suspect "ockers"  to be garbage, because -1 is probably an unexpected
> error number !
>
> Yes, Net/LMTP.php probably parses the response from the cyrus lmtp
> socket incorrectly. I did a grep for "ockers" in the cyrus source code
> and there is a section within doc/faq.html:
>
>    Q: I'm getting messages in imapd.log like:
> Sep 11 17:23:55 ogg lmtpd[773]: DBERROR db3: 16 lockers
> Sep 11 17:23:55 ogg lmtpd[1409]: DBERROR db3: 17 lockers
> Sep 11 17:23:56 ogg lmtpd[1508]: DBERROR db3: 9 lockers
> Sep 11 17:23:56 ogg lmtpd[776]: DBERROR db3: 9 lockers
>           What's wrong?
>           A: Nothing is wrong. These messages are logged whenever
>           Berkeley db encounters lock contention, but isn't necessarily a
>           problem by themselves. This is especially likely when you have
>           an empty or small duplicate delivery database and are receiving
>           a large volume of e-mail.
>           Berkeley db 4.0 has a bug where the number of lockers isn't
>           decremented properly, causing this number to be unreliable.
>
> So the error probably originated from the Berkeley db. But in general
> it looks ok to me since the locking is necessary.
>
> The resulting error message is not ok though. I don't know if this is
> a cyrus problem (violation of the LMTP protocol) or a Net/LMTP.php
> problem (parse error of the response).
>
> Maybe somebody else knows where to submit a bug report :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gunnar
>
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Alain Spineux
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