[Dovecot] Not getting new mail notification
Robert Creager
Robert_Creager at LogicalChaos.org
Fri Sep 22 20:05:19 EEST 2006
Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> The way maildir delivery works is:
>
> create the file in tmp/
> hardlink it to new/
> unlink from tmp/
>
> The last two steps could be done with a rename() which would fix the JFS
> problem, but since there's a tiny (practically non-existent with
> Dovecot) possibility of that overwriting a mail file in new/ dir,
> link()+unlink() is done.
>
Alright. Would using Dovecot's LDA (using procmail now) solve the
problem a slightly different way? Or is the LDA just good for updating
the index files?
Thanks,
Rob
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