[dovecot] Re: 0.99.9.1 OpenBSD and mbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 22:57, Alvaro Munoz-Aycuens Mtnz. wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Now it works, these are the parameters I touched, the rest remains
> pretty the same as the example conf:
> 
> #default_mail_env =mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> #mailbox_check_interval = 1
> #mbox_locks = fcntl

And you did remove the '#' chars, right?

> Anyway seems that HUP doesn't fully gets dovecot to reread conf file and
> restart, better to use SIGUSR1?,

SIGHUP rereads config file and uses them for new connections, but
existing connections are left like they were. Dovecot doesn't catch
SIGUSR1 so rather use the normal SIGTERM.

> by the way how I disable dotlocking in
> case I want to try.

You just did by removing dotlock from mbox_locks.