[dovecot] Dotlocking doesn't work?

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

A Debian developer had this to say:

> >>  Files in the above dir are group mail, and the dir is group mail.  However,
> > > all binaries in /usr/lib/dovecot are root/root.  I have set them all to g+s,
> > > and group mail, and now the imap process can lock the INBOX.
> >
>
> > imap should be the only one that needs to be setgid mail.
>
> Actually, I've looked at the dovecot source code.  There is no way having
> setgid on the executable will work.  The source drops the privledges long
> before it tries to do a dotlock.
>
> This is an upstream problem.
>
> For now, I've disable dotlock, and use fcntl instead, as that is what exim
> uses anyways.

Is dotlocking still  a work in progress or are we missing something here?

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