[Dovecot] LOCK FILE

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:38 +0100, Obantec Support wrote:
> sorry to jump on this conversation but
> this is a pain for me on FC3 with 1.0 stable.
> are you saying that the conf line for lock files mbox format under
> /var/spool/mail/%u should only read
> 
> mbox_read_locks = fcntl
> mbox_write_locks = fcntl
> 
> i have
> 
> mbox_read_locks = fcntl
> mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl

No, having the dotlock files is safer. But *IF* everything that is
writing to mboxes uses fcntl locking, you don't necessarily need
dotlocks. That means mostly your MDA, but also anything else that
touches the mboxes.
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