[Dovecot] Locking strategy?

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 13:54 +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> But I don't think that locking works well. In pine I get the following
>> error messages:
>> Unexpected changes to folder (try restarting)
>
> Why do you let Pine use the mbox files directly instead of going through
> IMAP? That'll probably give you faster mailbox opening times as well.
>

Yes, in theory a good idea. But i don't want to enter a password again 
when I want to access my mailbox when I'm logged in through ssh.

Is there a secure possibility through imap with pine without entering a 
password on the local host?

> UW-IMAP and Pine used their own locking in /tmp also, and whenever one
> of them tried to access a mailbox the other one was using, the other one
> is sent a signal which kills it (or closes the mailbox in Pine
> probably). Dovecot doesn't try to do any of this, so you'll get the
> error.
>
>> Also when I delete a file in the imap inbox I can't see that immediatly in
>> pine (even when I restart pine the message is still there with a "Deleted"
>> flag.
>
> Setting mbox_lazy_writes=no fixes this, but makes the performance
> somewhat worse.
>

Ok, I'll try that.

Thank you for the answer.

Ciao,
Gerhard