[Dovecot] LOCK FILE

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Apr 21 17:25:59 EEST 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 15:47 +0200, Alex wrote:
> i'm working with exim 4.60, with mbox,  and dovecot dovecot-1.0.beta7,
> and filesystem quotas
> 
> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail::INBOX=%h/mbox:INDEX=/tmp/%u
> 
> lock_method = dotlock fcntl

You can have only one lock_method, and since you place indexes in /tmp
just keep it fcntl.

> mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl
> mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl
> 
> 
> The home of users is
> /home/usuaris/user
> 
> 
> Where place dovecot the lock file?

For mboxes it's always created wherever the mboxes are, for example for
your INBOX it uses ~/mbox.lock.
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