I'm using a4 on Solaris 9. In dovecot.conf, look for lock_method and try setting it to fcntl. I think I recall seeing that mentioned in the changelog. Yeah, there it is, line 210, under

2005-10-03 21:23 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>. * dovecot-example.conf, src/deliver/deliver.c, src/imap/namespace.c, src/lib-index/mail-index-lock.c, src/master/master-settings.c, src/pop3/main.c: Default lock_method to flock instead of fcntl. This is at least useful for not allowing Dovecot's indexes to be used accidentally with wrong settings in NFS mounted partitions.

Hope it helps...

Andy Cravens wrote:

I just upgraded from alpha 3 to alpha 4 and now I'm getting these errors:

dovecot: Nov 28 16:17:37 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up dovecot: Nov 28 16:20:11 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<jdoe>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, TLS dovecot: Nov 28 16:20:13 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<jdoe>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, TLS dovecot: Nov 28 16:20:13 Error: imap(jdoe): flock() locks not supported dovecot: Nov 28 16:20:13 Error: child 15661 (imap) returned error 89

I'm using maildir so locking shouldn't be an issue. Mail storage is NOT nfs mounted. I'm on Solaris 9.

Any ideas?

-- Andy