[Dovecot] Dovecot vs Exim file locking

[Timo Sirainen]

On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Daniel Campos wrote:

> We're planning to deploy a large e-mail system storing maildirs in a NAS
> system through NFS. One of the options we're thinking on is using
> Dovecot+EXIM.
> 
> As far as I've read in both project's documentation, both services implement
> locking allowing multiple servers to access the same maildirs in order to
> distribute the service load.

Mail deliveries don't require any locks with maildir. But for Dovecot, be sure to read http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS