[Dovecot] dovecot help

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jun 29 01:55:15 EEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:49 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> Andy Fadich spake the following on 6/28/2007 3:27 PM:
> > What do you mean "The same happens with UW-IMAP/POP3"  Do you mean that
> > internal data message is standard with both dovecot and ipop3d?
> > 
> > Ill go look for some answers on webmins website also. Thanks for the help.
> > 
> > Andy
> That is definitely the problem. Usermin reads the mail files directly. So does
> Openwebmail, neomail, and some of the older early webmail clients. Dovecot
> won't like it because of its index files. UWImap worked because it kept its
> markups inside the mbox along with the message.

It shouldn't be a problem if other programs modify mbox files, as long
as they use proper locking. The index files get updated automatically.

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