[Dovecot] Problems with the pop3 part of dovecot

[Brandon Lamb]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 10:21 -0700, Brandon Lamb wrote:
>> I did modify exim to add the W=size but it also required use_crlf and
>> that seemed to break something else. I also found a couple posts
>> saying to use INDEX=MEMORY for the pop3 part, but I didnt understand
>> if that actually DISABLED pop3 using indexes or if it really stored
>> something in memory, and if so what happens on a reboot, so I am
>> confused on if i should tell the pop3 part to use the same
>> /dovecot-index that I specified for imap.
>
> v1.1 handles index files with POP3 a lot better than v1.0. I don't think
> it's a good idea to disable them.
>
> This reminds me, I should look into updating the
> courier-dovecot-migrate.pl to copy the virtual sizes and POP3 UIDLs from
> Courier's files to dovecot-uidlist now that v1.1 supports them both.

So using 1.1.5 would you recommend that I have INDEX=MEMORY or
INDEX=/dovecot-index (which is nfs stored dir) for pop3?