Proposed dovecot update changes

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jan 17 05:13:18 UTC 2005


Warren Togami (wtogami at redhat.com) said: 
> 2. dovecot.conf should default to fcntl locking
> ===============================================
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145214#c7
> Our default dovecot.conf changed from fcntl to dotlock sometime after 
> the release of FC2.  That is one of the reasons why we see this above 
> bug.  This problem must now be attacked on two fronts:

Argh. *Anything* that touches mail needs to use fcntl and fcntl
only; it's stated policy, and not following it is asking for
trouble with other mail-handling software.

Bill




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