The order appears to be very important, as we were having mailbox corruption problems. When I switched our dovecot.conf file locking style and order to match "procmail -v" things got a lot better. Unfortunately, Netscape and Thunderbird still get confused from time to time and we have to remove the user's INBOX.msf and have the mailer make a new one.
One fix was to move Netscape Junk mail folder to the local disk, but that probably doesn't apply in your case.
While I love how easy Dovecot is to set up and manage, I find that it's much picker and touchier than UW imap. (Not that I miss the "Do Not Delete This Message" hack).
Ellen Clary Senior System Administrator Dynamic Graphics
Curtis Maloney wrote:
Just to check:
it sounds like you're both using mbox format... have you verified that Dovecot, your LDA, and anything else accessing the mailboxes is using exactly the same locking, _in the same order_ ?
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net