[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA - Performance/issues versus postfix delivery? Also, installing on OS X?

[Dean Blackburn]

Curtis Maloney wrote:
> Dean Blackburn wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone give me an idea of whether or not dovecot-lda can solve 
>> the following issue: We seem to have constantly-corrupting dovecot* 
>> files for people who fit one (or more) of the following categories:
>>
>> 1) 1000+ message inboxes;
>> 2) multiple clients simultaneously checking mail;
>> 3) people receiving a lot of mail, and/or the server receiving and 
>> trying to deliver a single message to all users at once
>>
>
> This has the smell about it of bad locking.  Are you absolutely 
> certain that both postfix and dovecot are using the _same_ locking 
> scheme?
Indeed! Postfix was using flock, and dovecot was using fcntl.

Unfortunately, switching postfix to use fcntl has not resolved this 
issue... We're still seeing the temp files from hell.
> Oh, and is the mail store local, or on NFS?
>
Local. We need the server to work before we start investigating NFS/etc.

Thanks,

-deano