Bug 455105

Summary: uw-imap: incompatible locking
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: strovato
Component: uw-imapAssignee: Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description strovato 2008-07-11 23:05:49 UTC 
Description of problem:
procmail on EL5 uses fcntl locking, however the uw-imap package from EPEL uses
flock locking.  This can lead to mail loss if the mailbox is opened
simultaneously by both.  This is a repeat of an old bug that Red Hat developed a
patch for (#15779).  Perhaps this patch should be included in the EPEL release.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2008-07-11 23:20:54 UTC 
Upstream (uw-imap) has historically been (violently) opposed to fcntl locks/hacks.

I'll try pinging them again.
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2009-08-31 13:52:53 UTC 
confirmed, I'm not willing to fork/patch here, given upstream opposition.