rawhide report: 20040109 changes

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 07:07:09 UTC 2004


Florian La Roche (laroche at redhat.com) said: 
> > > imap(aoliva): Error: open(/var/spool/mail/aoliva.lock) failed: Permission deniedimap(aoliva): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/aoliva: Permission denied
> > > imap(aoliva): Error: open(/var/spool/mail/aoliva.lock) failed: Permission deniedimap(aoliva): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/aoliva: Permission denied
> > > 0 NO Internal error [2004-01-12 17:06:26]
> > > 
> > > However, the regression may actually be a good thing.  To wit:
> > 
> > File a bug report. It should Not be dotlocking.
> 
> I think dotlocking adds a good additional locking and at least procmail
> has always done so, too:

No mail<anything>agent should be dotlocking by default and failing
if it can't. That's what this is appearing to do.

Bill





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