[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.0.beta1: New mail sometimes fails to appear

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 14:30 +0200, Tom Alsberg wrote:
> * both home directories and /var/mail are on NFS - stored on another 
> server (NetApp)
>    - This means that the only way to get new mail is to do continuously 
> check (poll/busy-wait) whether there are any changes in the mailbox, 
> which the IMAP process does.  No epoll/inotify or anything like that.

Maybe NFS is caching Dovecot's stat() calls which check if the mbox has
changed?

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