[Dovecot] Files Moving From /New to /Cur

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tony Rutherford wrote:

> We have our own delivery pushing messages to the /new and then /cur folder
> eventually.  When I have an IMAP client attached, there is apparently some
> sort of race going on.  I believe that Dovecot is moving files from /new to
> /cur (and renaming them) before our own delivery gets the job done.
>
> This is causing a problem for us.  Is there a way to disable this in
> Dovecot?  I have the LDA section commented out of the config file..so I

No :-) this is part of Maildir
Well, yes: patch Dovecot's sources.

> don't think that's in play.   Bottom line is that I don't want Dovecot to
> move any files around whether an IMAP client is attached or not (except for
> handling the IMAP COPY/APPEND).

What are you mean with "move"? The move from "new" to "cur", when the 
message has been seen? Or the "rename" of the filename for status / 
keyword change?

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Maildir defines the delivery process as:

1) create the file in "tmp/"
2) dump all data into it, hence, close it
3) rename() the file into "new" or "cur".
4) be done with the file (aka don't try to re-open)

There is no race-condition that way.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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