problem with cyr_expire

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Monday, September 3, 2007 2:01 PM +0200 Rudy Gevaert 
<rudy.gevaert at ugent.be> wrote:


On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:17:47 +0200, "Rudy Gevaert"
<Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be> said:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that I'm having a problem with cyr_expire.  I previously set
> an expire annotation on a mailbox.  (Some months ago.)
>
> I have now seen that cyr_expire goes upto that mailbox and then errors:
>
> Sep  2 04:40:07 himalaya mail1/cyr_expire[10145]: IOERROR:
> ugent.be!user.rudy^gevaert.Spam zero index/expunge record 8/1183861181


We have had the same problem repeatedly on a folder that has an expire
annotation:

Sep  2 04:01:11 currywurst cyr_expire[7184]: IOERROR: spam zero
index/expunge record 443/1247

The disk was fsck'd about three weeks ago and it did have some data
errors that were repaired.  We then went about a week without the error
and now it is back, every few days.  Running reconstruct definitely
fixes it, but it does not stay fixed.

1247 is not the number of messages in the mailbox.  There are about
19,000 messages.  What does "443/1247" represent?

The only other mailbox that has this problem is also the only other
mailbox we have that has an expire annotation.  But this other one has
the problem much less often, and not at all since the fsck.  It is on
the same partition.

I have wondered whether the bogus Date headers in spam tickle a bug
in expiring by date.


Joseph Brennan
Lead Email Systems Engineer
Columbia University Information Technology