[Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

[Daniel L. Miller]

Brett Dikeman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Charles Marcus
> <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 4/22/2009, Brett Dikeman (brett.dikeman at gmail.com) wrote:
>>     
>>> The lock files are one possible problem, but it is a HUGE problem that
>>> Dovecot is converting them into root-owned zero-length emails!
>>>       
>> Do you have proof that it is dovecot doing this?
>>     
>
> I don't know if dovecot is creating the lock files, but it certainly
> appears from the logs (provided in my original email) that Dovecot is
> renaming them when the users go to log in.
>
> Further checking- the affected messages are not the result of some
> contention between procmail and dovecot; one of the affected messages
> came in at 11AM the day before the lockfile was renamed.
>
> Brett
>   
How is /var/spool/mail mounted (local disk or network)?  What filesystem 
is it using?

-- 
Daniel