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I have to make dotlock work because this openwebmail thing only supports one of dotlock or flock, but procmail delivery does dotlock and fcntl. procmail correctly creates a dotlock file in /var/spool/mail/username.lock when delivering, I can watch this with `while :; do ls -la | grep lock; done`. It works fine when lock_method=fcntl, but no dotlock file shows up in /var/spool/mail.

There are three applications that have their mitts on files on my mail server, which is running AIXV5.3 and UWIMAP and mbox format. The mail folders and INBOXES are native to that machine, but also are NFS exported to a login server and a mailing list server. All three machines are running the lockd daemon. Everybody wants to lock differently 1) procmail (delivering for sendmail), which

Greetings all, I'm trying to get an understanding of a problem we are facing here. We're currently running dovecot 1.0-beta3 and have a long standing issue of system crashes on our mail server (Debian Linux 2.4.27-2-k7-smp). Here's what is happening: The machine hangs and the system load climbs as high as 80.0+. Yet, the system response is not effected. Command line is still

I'm running Dovecot 1.1 RC1. I believe I've done all the due diligence for making things working correctly over nfs. But I run into locking issues if I run over nfs. procmail is doing the delivery over nfs. uw-imap was ruining over nfs. dovecot is fine if its on the nfs server (i.e. it has local access to the disk, no nfs) I run into lock deadlocks if I run dovecot over nfs Users

I have Dovecot 1.0 in trial use by the IT staff, and have some locking questions Background, the mail server runs procmail, sendmail and NFS exports the user homedir and mailbox to a) a login shell host and b) a mailing list services host. It runs UWIMAP on the usual ports and dovecot on a arbitrary port number. Because of concern with NFS and file access contention. I have the following

Hello, I have a question regarding mailbox locking and hope any one can help me to better understanding the locking of mbox My Postfix lock option is fcntl dotlock mailbox_delivery_lock = fcntl, dotlock virtual_mailbox_lock = fcntl, dotlock My Dovecot lock option is fcntl only mbox_write_locks = fcntl mbox_read_locks = fcntl now, when user is download a large mail (20 MB) for example,

Dear Colleagues, I use exim's appendfile transport, procmail and a local mutt on my system, they all (to my knowledge) use lockfiles when working with mboxes. However, `doveconf | grep lock` says dotlock_use_excl = yes lock_method = fcntl mail_max_lock_timeout = 0 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 2 mins mbox_lock_timeout = 5 mins mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl

Hi Slight problem - linux 2.4 running dovecot, Solaris 2.8 home directory server. Full lockd support etc. I had to make the following code patches (at end of mail for clarity) to get dovecot to read the users mbox files at all. 1) fcntl with F_SETLKW will not work against a Solaris 2.8 server as proved with a small test program. Other forms of fcntl (ie F_SETLK) are OK. I noticed there are

Hi there, We're using Dovecot version 1.0.7 and Postfix, and since upgrading our Linux box we're getting this in the maillog: Nov 8 07:49:11 server1 postfix/local[27901]: 04B8E7081DA: to=<xyz at xyz.com>, orig_to=<abc at abc.com>, relay=local, delay=19, delays=0.07/0/0/19, dsn=4.2.0, status=deferred (cannot update mailbox /var/spool/mail/abc for user abc. unable to lock

What syntax is needed to make this work? The 2.0 wiki recomendations don't work - I can see the inboxes or the folders but not both at once and there are lots of error messages about prefix clashes if I simply use the existing 2.0.20 conf file on 2.1.6 The layout I have is: Inboxes in mbox format - /var/spool/mail/%u Folders in maildir format - /var/spool/imap/%u/Maildir/ Control and

Hello, Running dovecot 1.1.6 on centOS 5 and RHEL 5. With the settings: pop3_lock_session = yes mail_privileged_group = mail mail_location = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl and /var/spool/mail permissions: drwxrwx--x 2 root mail 4096 Nov 19 10:16 mail/ Trying to connect via POP3 results in this error: --- Nov 19 09:31:01

Hello, I'm using dovecot as a mail relay so that I can back up my providers IMAP mail locally. I'm impressed how easy this was to set up, but I'm having a quirk that I would like help with, if possible. There are many weak links in my set-up chain, if you will, but I think I've narrowed the problem. I'll describe my set-up anyway. I'm running dovecot 1.1.4 on ubuntu

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:08:00 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote: > How do you deliver then mails to the server? > > also mbox is very unoptimised mailbox format for this. Each time mail is deleted from mbox mailbox the whole mbox while needs to be rewritten to remove the mail. OpenSMTPD and Dovecot run on the same machine. OpenSMTPD receives incoming mails and

Hi there... Having updated to 1.0.beta1, I for a while thought a bad bug with IDLE handling that caused new mail in INBOX not to appear when using Mozilla Thunderbird has been solved. Although I can not reproduce one kind of problem anymore, after a short while it again appears that one does not always see one's new mail with Thunderbird. I can not consistently reproduce the bug, but

i'm working with exim 4.60, with mbox, and dovecot dovecot-1.0.beta7, and filesystem quotas default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail::INBOX=%h/mbox:INDEX=/tmp/%u lock_method = dotlock fcntl mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl The home of users is /home/usuaris/user Where place dovecot the lock file?

Hi All, Our test users re-download the mail they've left on the server when they switch from Qpopper to Dovecot. Qpopper includes the X-UIDL header - X-UIDL: X8V"!E)<"!58?"!"9C"! - on read messages. Any suggestions are appreciated. I've included my dovecot configuration. Thank you, Tristan --- Tristan Tristan Goguen CEO, ILAP? T: 416-250-5600 ext. 205 F:

Hi list, I try to run imaptest, but I get the following errors (as root): # ./imaptest copybox=Trash # or any other command in http://www.imapwiki.org/ImapTest/Examples Logi List Stat Sele Fetc Fet2 Copy Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo 100% 50% 50% 100% 100% 100% 33% 50% 100% 100% 100% 100% 30% 5% 5% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

The PC (Outlook) is accessing the mailbox via POP3, the iPhone is using IMAP; please consider we are talking about a user's home setup, so it's pretty difficult to have a more detailed report on his part (Outlook version, iPhone OS version, xDSL router type and configuration, etc.). The mail server 'dovecot -n' output is attached. The symptoms: when the Mail application is

Greetings: My outlook users accessing mail via dovecot's imaps have been consistantly getting locked out of their email. It happens about once a week per outlook user. It appears to happen when the are cliking on emails with attachments. When this happens, there are two imap deamons running for that user. I kill both deamons and things start working again. Squirrelmail, thunderbird and

Hi, I installed openwebmail on centOS 4.4 using tarballs CGI.pm-3.05.tar.gz MIME-Base64-3.01.tar.gz libnet-1.19.tar.gz Text-Iconv-1.2.tar.gz openwebmail-2.52.tar.gz and fianlly I did the below /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail-tool.pl --init Then I browse as below http://IP/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl then I got the below error. Please execute