On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Actually, this gives me pause that maybe I should not enirely remove the dotlocking methodhttp://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-July/000996.html Any comments on the (sole) use of POSIX fcntl() type locking?As long as you haven't used symlinks in your mboxes there's no problems with fcntl locking with Dovecot (assuming there are no non-Dovecot software writing to them).
Thanks for the info. I don't meet the last criteria: some users have direct file access via pine and other mail readers. There's also procmail, but I don't know what locking method it uses. Reading the pine sources closely, I think it fakes fcntl() for NFS mailboxes. I'm using dotlock_try which solves my immediate problem of allowing users to delete Email under full quota. The long term solution is to replace file access with kerberized IMAP access, but that's much further down the road. Joseph Tam <[email protected]>
