On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 16:35 +0000, Adrian Mardlin wrote: > > > Well, http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/b78e772cf1d2 fixes this > > problem but I'm not sure what to do about the indexing problem.. > I'll > > either have to fix it some way or just disallow symlinks.. > > > > How about simply deleting the index files before removing the symlink? > Why would the Index files need to indicate that a mailbox has been > deleted - surely that's handled by the fact that it's not there any > more?
It's to avoid race conditions when another session accesses a mailbox during mailbox deletion. For example quota could get screwed up.
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