[Dovecot] LOCK FILE

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 12:12 +0100, Obantec Support wrote:
> changing the locking strategies to
> 
> mbox_read_locks = fcntl
> mbox_write_locks = fcntl
> 
> has not improved the situation as 1 more user is now stuck in the
> username.lock problem.
> 
> is it just me suffering with mbox locking on random users? (its only 1 or 2
> over 200+ POP3 accounts) but i need to resolve it.

If you have such settings, then it's not Dovecot creating or looking at
the .lock files. Must be your procmail or something else (crashing maybe
while delivering the mail and leaving the .lock file lying there?).
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