[Dovecot] Locking /var/mail/user issue with postfix and dovecot

[Robert JR]

On 2012-10-25 17:28, /dev/rob0 wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:23:29AM +0300, Robert JR wrote:
>
>> Stan, sorry but you didnot understand my question at all, dovecot in
>> this case is reading the mailbox file while user downloading the 
>> mail
>> and not WRITING. only postfix write when a mail arrives and DOVECOT
>> only read the mail. And even if both write to the file, I
>
> I can't answer (don't know), but I can tell you that this is not
> true. Dovecot also writes to the file: updating message read flags
> and such.
>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.....
>
> Maildir is not for everyone, but it does handle issues like this
> smoothly. The delivery agent is always able to deliver new mail.
We can not convert to maildir now as we have alot of users and 
converting each account will take a huge time ..
well.. we can live with /var/mail/mailbox format , I just need to 
understand the locking issue and hope
Timo will be able to answer our question..
Thanks again