9 Feb
2006
9 Feb
'06
7:46 a.m.
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:42 -0500, Todd Piket wrote:
The problem with doing this with Dovecot and/or Maildir is, I believe, you must introduce some kind of locking mechanism in /var/mail/%u because the delivery agent and Dovecot may step on each other's toes otherwise. Since locking is "bad" in maildir this is not ideal.
Dovecot does maildir locking in any case. Even though maildir was designed to work without locks, in practise it requires them unless you're just adding new mail.