On 7.2.2006 22:17, "Dan Bongert" dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu wrote:
I just migrated from a FreeBSD/Sendmail/UW-IMAP setup to RHEL 3/Postfix/Dovecot (1.0a5 currently). Both systems used Procmail as the final delivery agent (into inboxes or .
Since the changeover, things have *mostly* been going ok, but I've been having some problems that I think are locking-related.
I'm getting reports from users about IMAP hangs (mostly from Thunderbird). Sometimes I see this in the Dovecot logs:
ovecot: Feb 06 11:30:45 Error: imap(dbongert): fcntl() failed with mbox file /home/d/dbongert/mail/worklists/tech-partners: Resource temporarily unavailable
Well, this means that some process has kept the mbox file locked for over 5 minutes and Dovecot gave up trying to lock it. A couple of Dovecot hangs have been fixed since 1.0alpha5, so upgrading might help.