[Dovecot] Return (revenge?) of the "pop-lock".

[Christian Balzer]

Timo wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 08:48, Christian Balzer wrote:
[exclusive fcntl() lock for index file ...]
>
>Right. That's one annoying thing with 0.99.10 index code, slow readers
>will block others from accessing the mailbox. There's not much you can
>do except disable indexes, which would lose cached message sizes and
>slow down POP3 a lot.
>
Not worth the hit given the far smaller number of "victims" compared
to the qpopper lock.

>The default timeout it 5 minutes already I think, so I'm not sure if
>growing it would help much.
>
If anything I might configure it lower, since most clients will have 
given up waiting for a response from the server after 5 minutes anyway. ;)

Regards and thanks for the insight,

Christian Balzer
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