[Dovecot] Not getting new mail notification

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:05 -0600, Robert Creager wrote:
> 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?

No. Everything that writes to maildir uses the link() + unlink() method.
Although if you did use Dovecot LDA, you could change the
link()+unlink() to rename() call only in Dovecot's sources.. I'd still
just suggest upgrading the kernel. :)

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