[Dovecot] locking question
Hi, I'm using Maildir with dovecot .99, I'm getting some errors with fcntl locks. Do I still need to use a locking mechanism if I'm using maildir with pop3 access.
For reasons I won't go into I cant upgrade from .99 to version one at the time.
I'm getting this error with some users, I have tried to manually delete the .imap.index file but the error comes back, any thoughts?
May 24 12:11:21 pop imap(generalg): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/g/generalg/Ma ildir/.INBOX/.imap.index
TIA, Paul
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:38 -0400, Paul Amaral wrote:
May 24 12:11:21 pop imap(generalg): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/g/generalg/Ma ildir/.INBOX/.imap.index
This probably means that there were multiple connections to the POP3 mailbox and one connection caused a timeout to another. This doesn't happen with v1.0 anymore.
For reasons I won't go into I cant upgrade from .99 to version one at the time.
I don't think there's anything else you can do about this though.
Am Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007 schrieb Paul Amaral:
Do I still need to use a locking mechanism if I'm using maildir with pop3 access.
This was a question, right? I guess Timo missed it as you missed the question mark... ;)
AFAIK locking is not strictly neccessary if you're using local maildirs.
I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong.
However, if you cannot got to Dovecot 1.0 but can convert to maildirs, doing this and turning off locking might also solve your problem.
Greetings,
Gunter
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Gunter Ohrner
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Paul Amaral
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Timo Sirainen