[Dovecot] corrupted index?

Tomi Hakala tomi.hakala at pobox.fi
Sat Feb 2 23:26:03 EET 2008


Gary Funck wrote:
> On 02/02/08 12:27:14, Ronald MacDonald wrote:
>> Where does Dovecot put the INDEX? My problem disappeared as soon as I
>> set INDEX=MEMORY.

> Does this mean that as long as the dovecot server is long-running
> that it will cache indexes into local memory?  Or is the index
> kept in memory only for the per-client connection?

Only for per connection. Store indexes on local disk if you wish
to have persistent indexes but avoid problems with NFS.

Do something like this
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/lib/dovecot/%u


Tomi


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