[Dovecot] Locking strategy?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:06 +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> 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?

Yes. Pine is able to use "ssh host imap" method to start the imap
server. Maybe that's configurable somewhere? So you could replace that
with: dovecot --exec-mail imap

If it's not configurable, then make a script to the location it tries to
start, and make it execute dovecot.

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