Re: mailbox locking

2018-12-16 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: 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. [vas@adm2 ~] procmail -v | & grep Locking Locking strategies: dotlocking, lockf() vas@adm2 ~] mutt -v|grep -i lock

mailbox locking

2018-12-15 Thread Victor Sudakov
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

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-10-02 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 18:08 -0700, Mark Hedges wrote: This is an old thread, but I'm having the same problem. pop3_lock_session=no The iphone checks mail, and disconnects uncleanly. Then there is a delivery attempt. I have procmail logging on, and procmail sits there trying to lock the

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Hedges
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: Are you using mbox or maildir? With mbox I guess this is more or less expected. The solutions I can think of: mbox a) Switch to maildir. Nope our webmail depends on mbox. b) Shrink pop3 idle timeout from 10 minutes to one minute or so.

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-10-02 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Oct 2, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Mark Hedges wrote: Maybe Apple can fix the problem with the iphone client? Hrmm, I have no idea how to report it. Do you know what exactly the disconnects uncleanly means? Can you get some tcpdump logs? Either one of these should be fine: a) Send POP3 QUIT

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-09-30 Thread Mark Hedges
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:47 -0500, Bill Dunn - VCI Internet Services wrote: I have a problem I can't seem to fix. I have dovecot configured to do POP3 with plain text authentication using a MySQL database. I am using Dovecot 1.0.7 with fcntl

[Dovecot] Mailbox locking problem with iphone and POP3

2009-08-03 Thread Bill Dunn - VCI Internet Services
I have a problem I can't seem to fix. I have dovecot configured to do POP3 with plain text authentication using a MySQL database. I am using Dovecot 1.0.7 with fcntl locking. My problem has been when an iPhone/iPod checks email. The iPhone/iPod doesn't disconnect with a TCP FIN packet

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking issue?

2008-05-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 22:52 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Apr 8 19:07:20 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=xxx, method=PLAIN, rip=72.52.113.36, lip=72.52.113.36, secured Dovecot read-locks the mbox file here. Apr 8 19:07:22 sbh16 postfix/local[13745]: D959169046B: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking issue?

2008-05-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 22:52 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: From now on, as messages are added to the mailbox by Postfix, fetchmail keeps retrieving both old and new messages. i.e. even though dovecot's log says del 1/1 (or del n/n) no messages are actually deleted from the

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking issue?

2008-05-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 10:45 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Here's one additional piece of information which may or may not be relevant. There are actually three users (and three separate mailboxes) whose mail is being retrieved via POP3/fetchmail, but all three users have the same UID so there

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox locking issue?

2008-05-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 10:45 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Here's one additional piece of information which may or may not be relevant. There are actually three users (and three separate mailboxes) whose mail is being retrieved via POP3/fetchmail, but all three users have the

[Dovecot] Mailbox locking issue?

2008-04-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Here's my configuration. dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: /var/spool/mail/%u