Maikel Verheijen wrote:
I guess the fedora core 1 version does not report with an error when dovecot can't open your mail file/folder. This is a separate patch for the release version.
Please note that the current dovecot version does not support dotlocking for all file actions, so NFS is probably not safe and will result in lock errors. (and lock errors can result in the error you were experiencing). I do know Timo is working real hard on getting dovecot to support dotlocking as well for all file actions.
Does this apply to Maildir-format or just mbox? I thought I was playing it safe by using Maildir and having the index files on the local drive... That's the impression I got from the current dovecot documnentation. I just thought it was strange that the problem went away by just replacing the binary.
Anyway, this is just a temporary setup for a project in a class at my university, nothing mission critical.
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