Re: mbox locking

On 09 October 2018 at 17:18 Martin Johannes Dauser mdauser@cs.sbg.ac.at wrote:

On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 15:30 +0200, Selmeci Tamás wrote:

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On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:08:00 +0200 Sami Ketola

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How do you deliver then mails to the server? 

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OpenSMTPD and Dovecot run on the same machine. OpenSMTPD receives incoming mails and stores them in a mailbox (/var/spool/mail/user). Dovecot then fetches mails from this mailbox file.

Regarding locks, OpenSMTPD's config should match methods AND order of dovecot's mbox_write_locks. 

Methods known by dovecot are dotlock, flock, fcntl and lockf. I couldn't find out, which methods are used by OpenSMTPD.

Dovecot's mbox_read_locks should match too, but dotlock isn't used.

https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox https://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxLocking https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox

Martin

You could use LMTP instead of direct delivery, too.

Aki