Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Friday, November 23 at 01:53 PM, quoth Erick Perez: >> Hi all, >> I have a locking problem in a Centos 4.4 linux machine with the >> following config: >> dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4 > > The problem is quite likely one that was fixed in more recent versions > of dovecot. Versions 0.99.x are extremely old (to the point of nearly > being an entirely different product from Dovecot 1.0). > >> then someone told me that I need to change dovecot to maildir format. >> Is there a reference to change format? >> Or some comments about this? > > Dovecot 0.99.x's Maildir support may have been better than its mbox > support, but that's a bad reason to convert all your mail storage. If > you update your Dovecot to a non-antique version, chances are you'll fix > your problem with much less effort. > > If for some reason you are completely stuck with 0.99.x, then yes, > changing to Maildir format is pretty easy, and there are plenty of > conversion scripts out there in the world. Just ask Google. Keep in mind > if the real problem is some bug in Centos that prevents Dovecot from > using locks, then the Maildir conversion may not help much, because > Maildir (in Dovecot) uses locks as well.
why lock? anyway, the problem should be solved because postfix won't need to lock the file.
