[Dovecot] maildir locking and 'racing'

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:08 +0000, William Ross wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2006, at 21:44, Andy Cravens wrote:
> 
> > I had this problem on a Sun Solaris 9 host using maildir.  I had to  
> > set lock_method = fcntl in dovecot.conf
> >
> > All accounts on this system are on local disk (not NFS)
> 
> 
> Fantastic! Fixed it just like that. Thank you.
> 
> Oddly, this too is a Sun box but it's running Debian. I'm ccing this  
> back to the list in case anyone else needs to know that (or can tell  
> me what's wrong with my flock).

That's strange. I haven't heard of there being any problems with flock,
except with NFS..
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