On 25.8.2011, at 5.12, David Warden wrote: > In your mail_location you can specify a different control and index directory > as a place where the user has no quotas. I'm not quite sure which it is > (control or index) that says where the dotlock file goes but it should be one > of them.
Nope, dotlocks go to exactly where the mbox file is, never elsewhere (otherwise using Dovecot with non-Dovecot software could cause corruption). fcntl locks is the only solution.