On Friday, November 23 at 01:53 PM, quoth Erick Perez:
Hi all, I have a locking problem in a Centos 4.4 linux machine with the following config: dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4
The problem is quite likely one that was fixed in more recent versions of dovecot. Versions 0.99.x are extremely old (to the point of nearly being an entirely different product from Dovecot 1.0).
then someone told me that I need to change dovecot to maildir format. Is there a reference to change format? Or some comments about this?
Dovecot 0.99.x's Maildir support may have been better than its mbox support, but that's a bad reason to convert all your mail storage. If you update your Dovecot to a non-antique version, chances are you'll fix your problem with much less effort.
If for some reason you are completely stuck with 0.99.x, then yes, changing to Maildir format is pretty easy, and there are plenty of conversion scripts out there in the world. Just ask Google. Keep in mind if the real problem is some bug in Centos that prevents Dovecot from using locks, then the Maildir conversion may not help much, because Maildir (in Dovecot) uses locks as well.
~Kyle
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