[Dovecot] POP (dot) locks

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 12:55 -0700, Ken A wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > ... currently Dovecot doesn't try to lock mbox for the whole POP3
> > session. That may create problems if two sessions actually try to access
> > the mailbox concurrently. If message gets expunged by another process,
> > Dovecot replies with -ERR to requests to fetch the message. That might
> > confuse some POP3 clients, or cause them to send errors to user.
> >
> >   
> 
> Is there currently any way to enforce mbox r/w locking for the entire 
> pop3 session in Dovecot?
> We're considering migrating from qpopper and need a pop3 server that 
> enforces locking while a session is active.

There's now pop3_lock_session setting in CVS. I'll try to release beta6
also sometimes soon.

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