Re: [Exim] MBX, UW imapd & vanishing messages

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Mark Rigby-Jones
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] MBX, UW imapd & vanishing messages
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Mark Rigby-Jones wrote:

> > However, on Linux, they seem to be different.
>
> The same applies on Compaq Tru64 (or whatever it's called this week) - on
> both of these you can get seperate flock() and fcntl() write locks on the
> same file at the same time.


Sigh.

> > The big question is: are you using NFS?
>
> A world of no. Exim & imapd are both running on the same machine accessing
> local disk.


That at least removes one source of problems. I'm afraid I don't really
have anything more to suggest other than stuffing lots of logging into
both Exim and imapd to try to pin down what exactly is happening.

Philip

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