[Dovecot] chdir() on NFS

[Christian Andersen]

Maikel Verheijen wrote:
> I guess the fedora core 1 version does not report with an error when
> dovecot can't open your mail file/folder. This is a separate patch for
> the release version.
> 
> Please note that the current dovecot version does not support dotlocking
> for all file actions, so NFS is probably not safe and will result in
> lock errors. (and lock errors can result in the error you were
> experiencing). I do know Timo is working real hard on getting dovecot 
> to support dotlocking as well for all file actions.

Does this apply to Maildir-format or just mbox? I thought I was playing
it safe by using Maildir and having the index files on the local
drive... That's the impression I got from the current dovecot
documnentation. I just thought it was strange that the problem went away
by just replacing the binary.

Anyway, this is just a temporary setup for a project in a class at my
university, nothing mission critical.

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Christian Andersen
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