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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 18:04 -0700, Dean Blackburn wrote:
> 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.

I guess it leaves temp files if it crashes or maybe in some cases if it
can't handle failures properly.

What kind of corruption errors messages exactly are you seeing?
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