[Dovecot] Re: New mail sometimes fails to appear

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 18:06 +0200, Tom Alsberg wrote:
> > BTW. your hostnames aren't same in the different machines, right?
> > And there's no other weirdness that prevents one process from seeing
> > another? Because if Dovecot thinks that the process which has created
> > the dotlock doesn't exist, it overrides the dotlock immediately.
> 
> No, there is nothing special of this kind.  All hosts have unique
> hostnames, and all processes see all other processes on the server.

What kind of dotlock files does exim create? Dovecot stores inside them
"pid:hostname". I guess it's possible that if Exim also writes something
inside them, Dovecot might interpret it wrong..

> Dovecot and the MTA (Exim) delivery run on different hosts, though,
> but that is natural and shouldn't be a problem, right?

Right.

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