Re: [Dovecot] Question: contention with blackberry
On 14.5.2007, at 23.09, Stewart Dean wrote: My production imap is currently UWIMAP with mbox.. One of the problems commonly observed is mailbox lock loss, which happens when: a) a VIP has multiple secretaries accessing a single mailbox (actually, they are professional enough to have figured the realities of conflicting access and rarely have a problem), b) somebody leaving their machine on at home and coming in and firing up their work computer c) important people with Blackberriesand the BB service polls the mailbox every so often and breaks the lock. In any case, the maillog ends up with a message like this: May 5 19:45:04 mercury mail:info imapd[2035774]: Logout user=x host=bda056.bis.na.blackberry.com [216.9.249.56] May 5 19:46:52 mercury mail:info imapd[2502902]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) user=x host=cpe-24-161-103-11.hvc.res.rr.com [24.161.103.11] How will this work with Dovecot? None of these are a problem with Dovecot. It supports multiple connections accessing the same mbox. I'm still using mboxes myself (going to move to dbox some day) and I've my desktop and my laptop accessing the same mboxes just fine. PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Dovecot] Question: contention with blackberry
My production imap is currently UWIMAP with mbox.. One of the problems commonly observed is mailbox lock loss, which happens when: a) a VIP has multiple secretaries accessing a single mailbox (actually, they are professional enough to have figured the realities of conflicting access and rarely have a problem), b) somebody leaving their machine on at home and coming in and firing up their work computer c) important people with Blackberriesand the BB service polls the mailbox every so often and breaks the lock. In any case, the maillog ends up with a message like this: May 5 19:45:04 mercury mail:info imapd[2035774]: Logout user=x host=bda056.bis.na.blackberry.com [216.9.249.56] May 5 19:46:52 mercury mail:info imapd[2502902]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) user=x host=cpe-24-161-103-11.hvc.res.rr.com [24.161.103.11] How will this work with Dovecot? I regard what is happening now as OK, working as designed. Although we may eventually move to a different mailbox format, I am only switching from UW to DC in the first step. -- Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
Re: [Dovecot] Question: contention with blackberry
Stewart Dean wrote: a) a VIP has multiple secretaries accessing a single mailbox (actually, they are professional enough to have figured the realities of conflicting access and rarely have a problem), b) somebody leaving their machine on at home and coming in and firing up their work computer c) important people with Blackberriesand the BB service polls the mailbox every so often and breaks the lock. In any case, the maillog Honestly, moving to Maildir will solve all your problems with (a) and (b), and most likely (c) as well. Especially with (a), you would be doing your VIP's people a huge favor by converting to Maildir during your IMAP daemon move... $0.02. -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
