[Dovecot] question about

[Michiel van Es]

Chris Wakelin wrote:
> Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
>> I do not mind that it is an IMAP 'feature'..I DO mind that Dovecot is 
>> autocreating it although I told dovecot to only serve pop3 and pop3s!!
>>
>> Michiel
> 
> 
> It's actually nothing to do with IMAP particularly, but it's how Dovecot 
> stores its indexes/cache to improve performance for all mailbox 
> accesses, whether POP or IMAP. The INBOX is a "special" folder in IMAP, 
> but the only folder in POP ;)
> 
> You could have :INDEX=MEMORY (at least with dovecot-1.0-testXX) if you 
> really don't want the indexes to be stored on disk (but there have been 
> bugs in it until recently).
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Chris
> 
Thanks! :)
I use default_mail_env = 
mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/tmp/indexes/%u/

and it works perfect! :)

Michiel