[dovecot] Re: Dotlocking doesn't work?

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Only solution for now is to set /var/mail world-writable and sticky.
>

Debian policy doesn't like that.

> Another way would be to use more privileged process for handling lock
> files. Some programs use setuid or setgid binary for that. I was
> thinking that I'd let imap process request the locks from master
> process. That would also allow overriding stale lock files created by
> other users with shared mailboxes.
>

I think this is a better idea overall.  It would reduce the amount of code
which needed elevated privileges and like you said, allow stale lock files
to be overriden.  I used to have that problem with uw-imap.

In the meantime, could you add something to the documentation about this
issue?

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