[Dovecot] IMAP "freezing" on OSX

Jon Callas jon at callas.org
Wed May 9 15:11:38 EEST 2007


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On May 9, 2007, at 2:35 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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> On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 13:49 +0100, Ben Carter wrote:
>>   The problem /seems/ to often start as a result of trying to move
>> messages between folders. I'm not certain if that's a root cause,
>> though, or simply a consequence of "opening" an affected folder to
>> perform the move. I have a spam folder with a large number  
>> (>10000) of
>> messages in it, and trying to file stuff in there is a relatively
>> surefire way to generate the problem.
>
> Try if dotlock_use_excl=yes helps. That setting was made to fix hard
> linking problems with HFS.
>
> Otherwise http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/ProcessTracing might  
> show up
> something useful when looking at what imap process is doing at the  
> time
> it seems to be hanging.

Is this a setting in dovecot.conf?

I'm using all the defaults, there, myself.

	Jon


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