[Dovecot] Locking /var/mail/user issue with postfix and dovecot

[Dennis Guhl]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:23:29AM +0300, Robert JR wrote:

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> should happen. My question is postfix locking option is = FCNTL,
> DOTLOCK , and dovecot = FCNTL, if postfix find a file already FCNTL,
> why it dotlock the file 5 secs then remove the dotlock and say
> resource unaviable? why in the first place it dotlock the file,
> althought it couldnot FCNTL it in the first place since it is FCNTL
> by dovecot while reading the in the moment

You are on the wrong mailing list, this is no problem of Dovecot.

Ask this question on postfix-users (maybe you are requested to show
evidence of this behaviour).

Dennis