[Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Feb 13 21:53:58 EET 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:49 -0500, Alan Ferrency wrote:

> Do you think the "idle process holds a lock open forever" problem that
> you recently patched for pop3 could also affect imap?

It shouldn't. The mailbox is unlocked after each command is finished.
But of course if the client sends a command that takes a really long
time that could be a problem. I don't think clients usually do that
though.

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