Red Hat 9 to FC2 and email

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Jul 1 00:03:24 UTC 2004


Am Do, den 01.07.2004 schrieb Burn Alting um 1:07:

> Well, I changed /etc/dovecot.conf to have
> 
> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
> 
> and unfortunately I get the same problem ...
> 
> Jul  1 08:52:24 swtf dovecot: Dovecot starting up
> Jul  1 08:52:37 swtf pop3-login: Login: judy [192.168.1.135]
> Jul  1 08:53:08 swtf pop3(judy): unlink(/var/spool/mail/judy.lock)
> failed: Permission denied

> I then changed /etc/dovecot.conf to have
> 	mbox_locks = fcntl
> rather than the default (which I believe is dotlock fcntl) and lo and
> behold, I could pick up the e-mail.
> 
> I'm relatively happy now, but I'd love to know why dotlock locking
> doesn't work. Does some service other than dovecot need to be
> started/configured?

Nothing else. Please read

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-June/003636.html

and it's answer. For a Fedora specific entry see bugzilla

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113491

and

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg00737.html

You didn't do something wrong.

> Burn

Alexander


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