[Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

[Mark Hedges]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Are you using mbox or maildir? With mbox I guess this is
> more or less expected. The solutions I can think of:

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> a) Switch to maildir.

Nope our webmail depends on mbox.

> b) Shrink pop3 idle timeout from 10 minutes to one minute
> or so. CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MSECS in src/pop3/client.c

Ergh... maybe i will try this...

> c) Implement some kind of unlocking feature so Dovecot
> unlocks mbox file after client has been idling for a few
> seconds. Seems to me like that would be too much trouble
> to be worth it.

Maybe Apple can fix the problem with the iphone client?
Hrmm, I have no idea how to report it.

Mark