Charles Marcus wrote: >> Jason Forester wrote: >> We have 3 RH5.1 boxes running the stock Postfix 2.3.3, but due to issues >> with the stock Dovecot 1.0rc15, Redhat supplied us with the version of >> Dovecot 1.0.7 that will be in Redhat 5.2. >> >> The mail store is automounted per-user from a Sun box via NFS. > >Timo strongly recommends to use 1.1 if you are using NFS... > >1.1 is available via atrpms.net
I do understand, but as I stated fairly clearly I thought "For reasons of support I cannot upgrade to a later dovecot at this time." Of course I have a ticket open with RedHat, but I thought I might come to the source, find out if it's some form of a known bug, and then perhaps I *could* use that as leverage to get another version installed. So the question still stands: Is this a known bug? Is maildirsize not NFS safe? Knowing that would be a huge first step for me, so thanks in advance for any assistance. Best Regards, -jason On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Jason Forester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aloha, > > I've searched the list and have found no similar reports, so I'm asking here. > > We have 3 RH5.1 boxes running the stock Postfix 2.3.3, but due to issues with > the stock Dovecot 1.0rc15, Redhat supplied us with the version of Dovecot > 1.0.7 that will be in Redhat 5.2. > > The mail store is automounted per-user from a Sun box via NFS. > > We were using it with no problems until last Friday, when we attempted to > implement quotas. I had done quite a lot of testing on a single system, so I > didn't anticipate any issues here. I created maildirsize files for each user > in the NFS-mounted /var/spool/mail/$USER and everything seemed fine. I > changed mailbox_command to /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver in postfix main.cf. > Mail was delivered, quota files updated, all good. > > However almost immediately a maildirsize folder vanished. Soon after > another, then another, and now we're missing nearly 40 of them. > > Any ideas as to why they're vanishing? Something to do with NFS? I've > tried to trigger it by massively sending to the same user on all three > systems but have yet to reproduce it at will. > > Any clues would be appreciated. For reasons of support I cannot upgrade to a > later dovecot at this time. > > Best Regards, > > - jason
