[Dovecot] maildir_file_do(/var/admhome/user/Maildir) racing

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Ralf,

Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>, [20070515 - 12:37:36]

> * Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> 
> > I've changed Dovecot's behavior now also:
> > 
> > x fetch * body
> > imap(tss): Error: Maildir: Symlink destination doesn't
> > exist: /home/tss/Maildir/cur/dgdgd
> > * 40 FETCH (BODY ("text" "plain" NIL NIL NIL "7bit" 0 0 NIL NIL
> > NIL)) x OK Fetch completed.
> > 
> > So it logs an error but still goes ahead without disconnecting the
> > client.
> 
> Great! Thank you.
> 
> Success story: We were using courier-imap with 9000 User accounts here
> at Charite and yesterday I switched to dovecot for imap, imaps and
> pop3s. The load dropped from 50-60 to 2 (!) during noon.
> 
> Excellent!

Are you willing to elaborate a bit about your setup, hardware, config,
etc?
This would be good to know what mailsystem is behind that values :-)

Thanks
	Stephan