Hi Timo,
I believe disabling file locking will fix the problem. I have search other sites about file locking and sendmail, file locking may cause sendmail to do Denial of Service. I have to get people to use the new squirrelmail + Dovecot server again. Is there a great chance the files would get corrupted because I do not have file locking enabled in Dovecot?
As for the _298392349394823908<user> temp file this is created by, the pop3 server I have, this cause any problems. Thanks! jane
----- Original Message ----- From: Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009 10:45 pm Subject: Re: [Dovecot] redirecting temp email files to another directory To: Dovecot Mailing List dovecot@dovecot.org
On Jan 19, 2009, at 1:40 AM, JANE CUA wrote:
sample temp files that gets create in /var/spool/mail -rw------ jane mail _43398509485894865jane
I'm certain Dovecot didn't create this file at least directly.
-rw------ jane mail jane.lock
This is a dotlock and it can be created by Dovecot. You could also probably disable it. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxLocking http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox
other users create these files randomly as well in /var/spool/mail, / var/spool/mail is an NFS mount.
Hmm. NFS is a pretty good suspect here. I know that in some situations it creates such temp files, although they're usually named .nfs.something. Are those files deleted or are they just lying around? What size do they have?