[Dovecot] separate partition for index/uidlist

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Mar 11 20:39:02 EET 2007


On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 19:17 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> If I have the mail_chroot config parameter set to some dir in the config 
> file and have the home directories set up with /./ ends in the userdb 
> file, do I have to create the directory which holds the index/uidlist 
> files under that chroot dir? Now it seems dovecot can not find the 
> directory which is outside of the chroot (I thought that dovecot opens 
> the index files before it chroots).

No. Each mailbox has separate index files, so the index files are opened
when the mailbox is opened. So there's no way to have index/control
outside chroot.

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