On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:25:21PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:17 -0700, Mark Costlow wrote:
Hello, I'm preparing to convert from qpopper + UW-IMAP to dovecot. So far testing has gone very well. One problem we haven't figured out is that long-running POP sessions keep the mailbox locked, so that the MDA times out while trying to deliver. We're using "maildrop" as our MDA if that matters. .. We though this setting would address the issue:
# Keep the mailbox locked for the entire POP3 session. pop3_lock_session = no
But it doesn't seem to.
Any ideas?
Switch to Maildir and the problem goes away. The issue is that the mbox file is read-locked when the first message is read. And since the POP3 client most likely just keeps reading messages for the entire session, the mbox file kept read-locked all the time. Can't really be fixed without some larger redesign (which is really not worth it).
Point taken.
Does this mean that pop3_lock_session is a NO-OP? Or does it have other implications?
Thanks,
Mark
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