[Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

[Scott Silva]

>>
>> Switch to Maildir and the problem goes away. The issue is that the mbox
>> file is read-locked when the first message is read. And since the POP3
>> client most likely just keeps reading messages for the entire session,
>> the mbox file kept read-locked all the time. Can't really be fixed
>> without some larger redesign (which is really not worth it).
> 
> We see this as well with mbox and pop3 accesses where some pop3 clients
> do not logout (iphone's are the worst offenders) for 30-90 minutes it
> seems. Timeout settings in dovecot.conf do not seem to help. procmail
> backs up waiting to get access to the inbox to deliver mail.
> 
> Is there a global timeout we can set that will close any pop3 connection
> after say 15 minutes? Maildir is not an option currently for many of our
> servers that use openwebmail, which does not support maildir currently.
> 
> Not sure if these pop3 sessions are in a loop, just keeping the
> conenction open for a reason, etc... but they do not seem to do anything
> after the initial check besides not logging out...
> 
> Rob
> 
That is one reason I am going to get rid of openwebmail. I am not too crazy
about having too many processes access the mailspool at the filesystem level.
They should have just coded it as a IMAP client.



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