[Dovecot] error in 1.1.2

Cor Bosman cor at xs4all.nl
Fri Sep 12 01:26:01 EEST 2008


> >I've been following this thread: the bug is related with copying  
> >mail across NFS in combination with cache locking, right?
> >Cor uses FBSD; but is this a bug that might impact other platforms  
> >as well?
> 
> The main bug here was that with lock_method=dotlock when cache file  
> was being compressed, it could have tried to lock the cache file  
> again, seeing that the .lock file already exists (created by itself)  
> and waiting for it until timeout and then overriding it and causing  
> the compression to fail. The OS or filesystem didn't matter.

After I applied the patches the errors disappeared. No problems anymore.
Thanks Timo.

Cor


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