On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:13:24 +0100 Paul Neuwirth via Postfix-users <postfix-users@postfix.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:03:40 +1100 > "Gary R. Schmidt via Postfix-users" <postfix-users@postfix.org> wrote: > > > On 28/3/25 19:44, Paul Neuwirth via Postfix-users wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > > > > I added the following to dovecot-config: > > > conf.d/10-mail.conf:# used only with INBOX when either its initial > > > creation or dotlocking fails. conf.d/10-mail.conf:# Rely on O_EXCL > > > to work when creating dotlock files. NFS supports O_EXCL > > > conf.d/10-mail.conf:dotlock_use_excl = yes conf.d/10-mail.conf:# > > > Locking method for index files. Alternatives are fcntl, flock and > > > dotlock. conf.d/10-mail.conf:# Dotlocking uses some tricks which > > > may create more disk I/O than other locking > > > conf.d/10-mail.conf:lock_method = dotlock conf.d/10-mail.conf:# > > > dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most > > > NFS-safe conf.d/10-mail.conf:# dotlock_try: Same as dotlock, but > > > if it fails because of permissions or > > > conf.d/10-mail.conf:mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl > > > > > > error message still present - but the issue seems to be resolved. > > > flooded my mailbox with command mail and did imap lists > > > simultaneously. hope this was it. > > > > > > > Are you running IMAP with the file storage accessed via NFS? > > > > Because that's one of the things that will have Mark Crispin > > spinning in his grave - he considered it the worst ways to do > > things. > > > > And it will explain your file-system problems. > > > > Cheers, > > Gary B-) > > Also I use NFS a lot, it is neither on a NFS mount nor exported. > > The issue seems to be gone. Hmm. I did one config change in postfix, > which could correlate with the start of the issue. > in main.cf I changed compatibility_level to 2 (previous non-existant) > and added localhost to mydestination. > > But since I did the modifications in dovecot config, everythings seems > to be fine. > > Greetings > > Paul unfortunately problem is not resolved. same as before again 29 mails in queue. I thought about migrating to mbox-layout (i think it's called so, with each e-mail being a single file). Does it use the same locking mechanism? Must check first if I do not reach inode limit.. _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
