mbox locking

Tue Oct 9 17:18:43 EEST 2018

On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 15:30 +0200, Selmeci Tamás wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:08:00 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi
> > wrote:
> 
> > How do you deliver then mails to the server? 
> > 

> 
> OpenSMTPD and Dovecot run on the same machine. OpenSMTPD receives
> incoming mails and stores them in a mailbox (/var/spool/mail/user).
> Dovecot then fetches mails from this mailbox file.
> 

Regarding locks, OpenSMTPD's config should match methods AND order of
dovecot's mbox_write_locks. 

Methods known by dovecot are dotlock, flock, fcntl and lockf. I
couldn't find out, which methods are used by OpenSMTPD.

Dovecot's mbox_read_locks should match too, but dotlock isn't used.

https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/mbox
https://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxLocking
https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox

Martin