Dovecot 0.99.13-2.FC3 update breaks INBOX

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Sun Jan 16 04:35:43 UTC 2005


Anduin Withers wrote:
>>>Does anyone have a recommendation on the best way to fix this?
>>>
>>
>> Here is a fix,  http://wiki.dovecot.org/VarMailDotLock
> 
> 
> Prior to this version, FC3 shipped with mbox_locks=fcntl, any word on why
> dotlock was added?
> 
> If people are really running their mail spools on a shared volume that
> doesn't support fcntl locking shouldn't they be the ones forced to add
> dotlock?
> 

That is a good question.  Our dovecot package should definitely be 
defaulting to fcntl.  Our older package was defaulting to fcntl for good 
reason, and it is a bug if that changed.

Warren




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