[Dovecot] link() problem with dovecot-imapd

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Sep 2 22:06:37 EEST 2004


On 2.9.2004, at 21:04, James Ray wrote:

> 	There is a log fragment below for when I try to do a move, the FS 
> that my Maildir is on doesn't support link() hence the problem. It 
> seems to be doing a proper copy to get it into the tmp/ part of the 
> Maildir and then a link() to put it in new/.

Maildir standard says to use link(), but I suppose it could fallback to 
rename() too.. Hmm. I'm just not sure if it's worth it to implement, 
it's useless bloat for most people.

And it's not just copying, it's saving messages in general which fails 
with you.
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