[Dovecot] inbox file read/write

[Christian Balzer]

Hello,

>If I config my mta to write incoming mail to /var/mail/[username] and 
>dovecot (or any other imap/pop server) is serving email from this file, 
>can't the fie be corrupted while mta and dovecot read/write at the same 
>time ?
>
>is there any mechanism to avoid it ?
>

your question has been just recently discussed, see the threads
starting with:

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-May/003364.html

as well as the nicely commented config file.

Regards,

Christian Balzer
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