[Dovecot] Dovecot development status v1.0

[Cor Bosman]

> >>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.

We have about 20 servers that customers can connect to. We try and put
them on the same server every time, but we cant guarentee that since servers
can crash or whatever.

All servers mount an NFS filesystem with a maildir based $MAIL. 
Indexes are on a local FS, since most of the time customers do actually
connect to the same server, and indexes on NFS are a nightmare anyways.

The dovecot-uidlist seems like it cant be on a local FS. So we'd have to
create a completely seperate NFS filesystem without quotas so all our
200.000 customers can have 1 file on it? :) Well, if we have to we have
to..but it seems there could be a better solution..

Cor