Bug#686110: cyrus-imapd: Corrupted databases can exhaust logging diskspace

[Jamie Thompson]

On 29.08.2012 08:06, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> severity 686110 wishlist
> tags 686110 +wontfix
> thank you
>
> Well, ideally you should check your system, deamons and logs after a
> power failure.

I did check, I just managed to miss the mail daemons as I was focussing 
on more important things, like DNS, DHCP and Samba so I and everyone 
else here could get back to what they were meant to be doing beforehand. 
It's a dangerous policy to rely on the human factor to get things 100% 
right in an emergency.

> I don't think upstream would want to waste development cycles on
> something which can be easily circumvented by human operator.

Such is your prerogative as maintainer. I regard logging several 
thousand identical lines per minute as a bug however, especially when 
it's for a database that could be deleted on startup anyway. The fact it 
has the ability to take down a machine is just the icing on the cake.

Anyway, thank you for acknowledging my report. At least it's here for 
the next poor soul who goes Googling when their machine dies.