[Dovecot] Cannot remove Maildir folder

Marcin Deranek marcin at ripe.net
Thu Jun 1 12:15:37 EEST 2006


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Looks like that's because Dovecot leaves the index files open for a
> while after closing the mailbox in case it gets reopened soon. I'll fix
> that. 

Thanks.

> Still if another process has the mailbox opened it'll fail, but I don't
> know if that's going to be a real problem.

Most probably not a 'real life' problem - as far as I've seen operations
on a single folder are handled by the same imap process (including removal).

Marcin


More information about the dovecot mailing list