Re: [Dovecot] locking question

2007-05-26 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Am Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007 schrieb Paul Amaral: > Do I still need to use a locking mechanism if I'm using maildir with > pop3 access. This was a question, right? I guess Timo missed it as you missed the question mark... ;) AFAIK locking is not strictly neccessary if you're using local maildirs

Re: [Dovecot] locking question

2007-05-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:38 -0400, Paul Amaral wrote: > May 24 12:11:21 pop imap(generalg): Timeout while waiting for release of > exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/g/generalg/Ma > ildir/.INBOX/.imap.index This probably means that there were multiple connections to the POP3 mailbox and o

[Dovecot] locking question

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Amaral
Hi, I'm using Maildir with dovecot .99, I'm getting some errors with fcntl locks. Do I still need to use a locking mechanism if I'm using maildir with pop3 access. For reasons I won't go into I cant upgrade from .99 to version one at the time. I'm getting this error with some users, I have tried

Re: [Dovecot] locking question

2007-03-31 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 29.3.2007, at 21.30, Stewart Dean wrote: There are three applications that have their mitts on files on my mail server, which is running AIXV5.3 and UWIMAP and mbox format. The mail folders and INBOXES are native to that machine, but also are NFS exported to a login server and a mailing

[Dovecot] locking question

2007-03-29 Thread Stewart Dean
There are three applications that have their mitts on files on my mail server, which is running AIXV5.3 and UWIMAP and mbox format. The mail folders and INBOXES are native to that machine, but also are NFS exported to a login server and a mailing list server. All three machines are running th