[Dovecot] link() problem with dovecot-imapd

James Ray jamesr at pethippo.co.uk
Sat Sep 4 03:38:57 EEST 2004


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 2.9.2004, at 21:04, James Ray wrote:
> 
>>     There is a log fragment below for when I try to do a move, the FS 
>> that my Maildir is on doesn't support link() hence the problem. It 
>> seems to be doing a proper copy to get it into the tmp/ part of the 
>> Maildir and then a link() to put it in new/.
> 
> 
> Maildir standard says to use link(), but I suppose it could fallback to 
> rename() too.. Hmm. I'm just not sure if it's worth it to implement, 
> it's useless bloat for most people.
> 
> And it's not just copying, it's saving messages in general which fails 
> with you.

any chance of someone either
	a) knocking me up a quick patch for this
	b) pointing me in the general direction of where I should be looking to 
write such a patch.

Thanks in advance.

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