[Dovecot] Cannot remove Maildir folder

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 31 16:12:32 EEST 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:11 +0200, Marcin Deranek wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> 
> Marcin Deranek wrote:
> 
> > Yes, default is 5. I'll try to set it to 1 and see if it helps.
> 
> It doesn't help, but I found the problem..
> 
> Short story: files dovecot.index, dovecot.index.log and
> dovecot.index.cache are unlinked before they are closed..
> close-before-unlink should fix the problem for NFS.

Looks like that's because Dovecot leaves the index files open for a
while after closing the mailbox in case it gets reopened soon. I'll fix
that. 

Still if another process has the mailbox opened it'll fail, but I don't
know if that's going to be a real problem.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20060531/c08e0bb8/attachment.pgp


More information about the dovecot mailing list