On 2012-10-25 17:28, /dev/rob0 wrote:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:23:29AM +0300, Robert JR wrote:
Stan, sorry but you didnot understand my question at all, dovecot in this case is reading the mailbox file while user downloading the mail and not WRITING. only postfix write when a mail arrives and DOVECOT only read the mail. And even if both write to the file, I
I can't answer (don't know), but I can tell you that this is not true. Dovecot also writes to the file: updating message read flags and such.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.....
Maildir is not for everyone, but it does handle issues like this smoothly. The delivery agent is always able to deliver new mail. We can not convert to maildir now as we have alot of users and converting each account will take a huge time .. well.. we can live with /var/mail/mailbox format , I just need to understand the locking issue and hope Timo will be able to answer our question.. Thanks again