22 Jan
2006
22 Jan
'06
2:41 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 14:30 +0200, Tom Alsberg wrote:
- both home directories and /var/mail are on NFS - stored on another server (NetApp)
- This means that the only way to get new mail is to do continuously check (poll/busy-wait) whether there are any changes in the mailbox, which the IMAP process does. No epoll/inotify or anything like that.
Maybe NFS is caching Dovecot's stat() calls which check if the mbox has changed?