On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:48:40PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 14:56 -0400, Glenn Leavell wrote:
dovecot: Oct 16 14:20:15 Error: imap(glenn): flock() locks not supported .. This looks like a locking issue on an index file. I had been leaving lock_method unset, letting it default to fcntl (inferred from the comments in dovecot-example.conf). I changed it to the explicit "lock_method = fcntl" and this fixed the problem.
Has the lock_method default changed from alpha3 to alpha4?
Yes. I forgot to mention this.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm now explicitly setting lock_method=fcntl in dovecot.conf, and that solved the problem, of course. However, one of my testers has been running a PREAUTH imap directly through an SSH tunnel (mutt supports this, for example). The command he's been running is:
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imapIt appears that the imap binary itself doesn't read the config file, so it was exiting with the same "flock()locks not supported" error. He was able to work around this by setting the LOCK_METHOD environment variable to the imap binary. But this means that he, as an end-user, needed to understand the behind-the-scenes locking situation in order to successfully run PREAUTH imap. In fact, he's been having to manually set the MAIL environment variable so that PREAUTH imap can find his INBOX (settings in dovecot.conf would normally help with this). Does it make sense for him to have to set these environment variables, or should PREAUTH imap read dovecot.conf for relevent settings?
Thanks, Glenn
-- Glenn Leavell glenn@usg.edu Office of Information and Instructional Technology Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia