[Dovecot] IMAP "freezing" on OSX

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 9 12:35:23 EEST 2007


On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 13:49 +0100, Ben Carter wrote:
>   The problem /seems/ to often start as a result of trying to move 
> messages between folders. I'm not certain if that's a root cause, 
> though, or simply a consequence of "opening" an affected folder to 
> perform the move. I have a spam folder with a large number (>10000) of 
> messages in it, and trying to file stuff in there is a relatively 
> surefire way to generate the problem.

Try if dotlock_use_excl=yes helps. That setting was made to fix hard
linking problems with HFS.

Otherwise http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/ProcessTracing might show up
something useful when looking at what imap process is doing at the time
it seems to be hanging.

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