[Dovecot] Bug#564633: dovecot bug: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> I believe it is due to a lock/race condition with the Mailbox format, when 
> you
> have alpine open (accessing the Mailbox) and an external client, e.g. Outlook

You are accessing the same mailbox locally with (Al)Pine and externally 
via Dovecot? Then you have to stop doing so and configure Pine to use 
IMAP, too, or configure Dovecot to use the same locking mechanism, which 
probably does not work with shared filesystems.

See: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxLocking

> or thunderbird.  Yes, when both clients access the mailbox it usually locks
> up Outlook or alpine..  I suppose the maildir format may be the better option
> but alpine has issue with that format.?

Alpine does not support local access to Maildir.

If you prefer local access to the mailbox, switch to mutt, which supports 
Maildir. There is no locking problem with Maildir.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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