My production DC machine owns the mail filesystems and is running DC V1.0.15 and mbox folder format. I am looking to test V1.1.3 on another machine, which NFS mounts the mail filesystems, but has its own local index FS.

I have made this test environment my default connection in TBird, and it seems to work just fine. Also, I have made sure that my TBird client isn't connecting to the production server (it has multiple accounts but I have turned off the cehck for mail when starting and check for new mail every N minutes functions, and then check the ps table to make sure there are no imap connections)
However, I'm seeing two errmsgs in the maillog on the test machine:
Sep 22 11:54:13 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): posix_fallocate() faile
d: Protocol not available
Sep 22 11:54:13 egg mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): file_set_size() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/sdean: Protocol not available
which appear to happen AFTER mail arrives at the production server....it seems to happen on my test server the next time my client goes to access mail AFTER mail has arrived at the production server. Subsequent client requests of the test server execute without error until AFTER the next time mail arrives at and my inbox is updated with it.

Again, if I hadn't looked at the logs, I wouldn't know there was a problem...I can see my new mail just fine from the test server.

The questions: Is this anything I should be concerned about? Is this a bug or a legit problem coming from my improper use of two servers against the same data.

FWIW, I am using fcntl for both mbox read and write locks. procmail in the MDA on the production server, and its locking hierarchy <dotlock,fcntl>, which Timo previously approved.

Thanks!

Production  dovecot -n output:
# 1.0.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
listen: *:143
ssl_listen: *:993
disable_plaintext_auth: no
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_processes_count: 12
login_max_processes_count: 774
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 200
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u
mbox_write_locks: fcntl
mbox_dirty_syncs: no
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
Test dovecot -n output:
# 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
listen: *:143
ssl_listen: *:993
disable_plaintext_auth: no
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_processes_count: 12
login_max_processes_count: 774
max_mail_processes: 1024
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 200
mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u
mbox_write_locks: fcntl
mbox_dirty_syncs: no
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd

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