Hi Sam,
The correct setting for this option depends on the format of your
system's mailbox files and the locking conventions used by your other
mail software.
See INSTALL for more information.
The format of the mailbox files I use is maildir. On the server I use
exim as mta and courier-imap in order to access the mails. I have tried
several compilation options for maildrop other than the default options
that come with gentoo, that are:
--with-devel \
--enable-userdb \
--disable-tempdir \
--enable-syslog=1 \
--enable-use-flock=1 \
--enable-maildirquota \
--enable-use-dotlock=1 \
--enable-restrict-trusted=1 \
--enable-trusted-users='root mail daemon postmaster
qmaild mmdf vmail' \
--with-default-maildrop=./.maildir/ \
--enable-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail
I have tried --enable-tempdir, -enable-use-dotlock=0,
enable-use-flock=0, but I cannot get that working.
I have also tried to set IMAP_USELOCKS=0 in the config file of
courier-imap (/etc/courier-imap/imapd), but I go on getting:
/usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to create a dot-lock
Is there a conflict between maildrop and courier-imap? There is
otherwise no other software on the machine that accesses the mailbox folder.
Greetings. :o)
Patrick
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