[Dovecot] Mailbox locking issue?

[Mark Sapiro]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 10:45 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> 
>> Here's one additional piece of information which may or may not be 
>> relevant. There are actually three users (and three separate mailboxes) 
>> whose mail is being retrieved via POP3/fetchmail, but all three users 
>> have the same UID so there is only one set of .imap/INBOX/dovecot.* 
>> files for all three mailboxes.
> 
> So you mean all 3 mailboxes share the same index files? That's a sure
> way to cause all kinds of problems.


Yes, that's what I mean. I didn't realize this was the case until just 
now when I looked at exactly which log files I would send if I saw a 
recurrence. I think they have the same index files because they all have 
the same home directory which is an artifact from an old set up. This 
could easily be changed.

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