Hello,

If I config my mta to write incoming mail to /var/mail/[username] and dovecot (or any other imap/pop server) is serving email from this file, can't the fie be corrupted while mta and dovecot read/write at the same time ?

is there any mechanism to avoid it ?

your question has been just recently discussed, see the threads starting with:

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-May/003364.html

as well as the nicely commented config file.

Regards,

Christian Balzer

Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi@gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/