I'm running beta3 (upgraded from beta1) on OS X 10.4.4, and we're basically seeing two problems:
total imap/dovecot crash after a period of repeated "too many files open" errors... Restarting fixes it, but we'll see if increasing the open files limit is the answer or not... Never run into this with anything before, so I'm not confident;
individual user accounts will become inaccessible occasionally when multiple clients are hitting the account at once (checking from home and work) - deleting all dovecot* files in the maildir fixes this, but... I thought Dovecot was supposed to catch this kind of thing and regenerate the files by itself? I think this is also the "locking problem" in the sense that once this occurs, the directory will fill up with lockfiles for each message the user unsuccessfully tries to load from the client side.
-deano
Neil Wilson wrote:
Chris Wakelin wrote:
We had occasional locking problems with 1.0-stable and Outlook, but they appear to be fixed by moving to 1.0-beta3. I migrated the rest of my users to 1.0-beta3 last night, and so far so good ...
Chris
I had loads of problems with older Dovecot versions, so that's why I've moved to beta3.
It's been running perfectly for a good few months, until now.
Regards.
Neil