[Dovecot] Read-only FS

[Radomir Zoltowski]

Would you recommend a set of reasonable settings for this? I kind of 
struggle to put these together...

R.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Radomir Zoltowski wrote:
>
>> Imagine an NFS mounted read-only file system containing directories 
>> full of plain mboxes. Any recommendations on how to approach the 
>> access with dovecot?
>>
>> I believe all NFS recommended options apply, how about index/cache 
>> files though? Can I switch them off deliberately for good? 
>> Performance degradation is not an issue.
>
> Sure you can disable them, but if you're going to be using IMAP 
> clients to access them the UIDVALIDITY values will change all the time 
> which will cause clients to download the messages (or headers at 
> least) again every time a mailbox is selected.
>
> You could also store the index files on local disks and preserve 
> UIDVALIDITY.
>

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