[Dovecot] Dovecot development status v1.0

[Chris Wakelin]

Cor Bosman wrote:
>>I think you may find it works (users can delete mail) if you put the 
>>Dovecot indexes on separate filesystem (preferably unquota'd). I haven't 
>>tested it, though. It seems to me that it is similar to the mailbox on a 
>>read-only filesystem case.
> 
> 
> We have indexes on a seperate local filesystem without quota. It seems
> the problem is with creating the dovecot-uidlist file in $MAIL.
> 
> Cor

Ah, Maildir! In that case, you need to add 
:CONTROL=/some/other/filesystem/%u or whatever in the "default_mail_env" 
(or "location" for namespaces) setting. It's not documented, but was 
mentioned in an earlier thread about read-only mailboxes.

Best Wishes,
Chris

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