[Dovecot] Test environment question

[Stewart Dean]

I want to test out my first V1.2 Dovecot (upgraded from V1.1) instance.  
What I have in mind to do is to run it on another machine that has the 
Inbox dir and homedirs  NFS import mounted from the production 
mailserver.  I then have 5 people test it in this test environment....

A) Then I can deal with the index filesystem in one of two ways:
   1) Make it local OR
   2) NFS import it from the production DC server
Comments as to which is best?  I have used #1 before...which caused some 
temporary unhappiness with the switchover and switchback....during which 
time the index is badly wrong and DC auto-rebuilds it...

B) Is there anything else I should do/not do? 
C) Any ugliness that will surface in this testing lashup but isn't 
important?

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==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources 
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 
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