On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:25:21PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:17 -0700, Mark Costlow wrote:
> > Hello, I'm preparing to convert from qpopper + UW-IMAP to dovecot.
> > So far testing has gone very well. One problem we haven't figured
> > out is that long-running POP sessions keep the mailbox locked, so that
> > the MDA times out while trying to deliver. We're using "maildrop" as
> > our MDA if that matters.
> ..
> > We though this setting would address the issue:
> >
> > # Keep the mailbox locked for the entire POP3 session.
> > pop3_lock_session = no
> >
> > But it doesn't seem to.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Switch to Maildir and the problem goes away. The issue is that the mbox
> file is read-locked when the first message is read. And since the POP3
> client most likely just keeps reading messages for the entire session,
> the mbox file kept read-locked all the time. Can't really be fixed
> without some larger redesign (which is really not worth it).
Point taken.
Does this mean that pop3_lock_session is a NO-OP? Or does it have
other implications?
Thanks,
Mark
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