imap IOERRORs on Mac OS X Server

[Perry Smith]

Anyone looking for the fix to this, please look here:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1675657#1675657

(BTW, the SQUAT messages may be ignored)

On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Perry Smith wrote:

> On Feb 3, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
>> Perry Smith wrote:
>>> I posted this to question to info but got no response so I am  
>>> trying  this list.  Sorry for the duplication.
>>> I'm new to this list and new to Cyrus.  I have a problem on a Mac  
>>> OS  X 10.4.4 Server.  The problem may be due to something that  
>>> Apple has  added but I've been unable to get help from any of the  
>>> Apple forums.   It may be that someone on this list can figure  
>>> out the problem but  more than likely, if someone on this list  
>>> can give me a debugging  approach, I think that may help a great  
>>> deal.
>>> The problem seems simple: I get IOERROR's unexpected end of  
>>> file.  I  also get SQUAT failed to open index file (and just  
>>> SQUAT failed).
>>
>> The SQUAT messages are most likely debug messages which can be  
>> eliminated by changing syslog.conf.
>>
>> What version of Cyrus?
>
> Apple's opensource.apple.com site has a tarball named  
> "CyrusIMAP-156.9".  I don't see a version in the syslog output.   
> The CyrusIMAP-156.9 has a version file and CYRUS_VERSION is set to  
> v2.2.12.
>
> The command: strings -a imapd | egrep '^v2\.'
>
> gives me:
>
> v2.2.12-OS X 10.4.0
>
>
>> What filesystem is being used?
>
> The file system is Apple's "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"
>
>> What user settings in particular?
>
> I'm not sure how to answer this.  Do you want me to post /etc/ 
> cyrus.conf?
>
> admins: cyrusimap
> configdirectory: /var/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> unixhierarchysep: yes
> altnamespace: yes
> servername: easeserver.easesoftware.net
> sievedir: /usr/sieve
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> imap_auth_clear: no
> lmtp_downcase_rcpt: 1
> pop_auth_gssapi: yes
> tls_cert_file: /etc/certificates/Default.crt
> pop_auth_clear: no
> log_rolling_days: 0
> log_rolling_days_enabled: false
> tls_key_file: /etc/certificates/Default.key
> imap_auth_gssapi: yes
>
> I do have logging set pretty debug trying to track this down.  Its  
> not the error messages so much as the general user interface (from  
> the client).  When I send mail, it takes a long time to actually  
> get the mail out.   The smtp log shows that the mail goes out  
> immediately.  So I am guessing that the extra time involved is when  
> the client is trying to copy a copy of the message to "Sent" (which  
> is on the imap server).  Also, the client interface is just slow  
> and sluggish.  The client and server are on the same machine -- the  
> machine is not doing much else.  It appears that the client gets  
> stuck at the same time as the "unexpected end of file" messages.
>
> I see the man page for imapd has a -D option but I don't know how  
> to turn that on or if it would do me any good.
>
> Thank you,
> Perry
>
>