[Dovecot] mail_fsync=never doesn't work?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 19:03 +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 05:09 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 08:29 +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
> >
> >> Sadly, I'm one of them. Currently during the provisioning it's not
> >> guaranteed that a user will have a mailbox in the file system, so
> >> autocreating it during pop logins is a bless. :)
> > But POP3 doesn't use anything except INBOX, so why do you need to
> > autocreate them there? I'd think it's useful only with IMAP.
> >
> >
> You mean the four folders, or the inbox itself? For the inbox itself: if 
> there is no such directory, the login will fail and the user will look 
> for errors. 

INBOX is always auto-created. In earlier versions there were a couple of
bugs that caused it to fail though.

> For the other folders: we have a crappy webmail, which 
> messes directly with the maildir, and that also doesn't autocreate the 
> mailboxes, so if the user only logs in via pop and webmail, and I only 
> create inbox, he will miss trash, drafts and sent...
> 
> Weird, I know. :)

Oh well. That also means then that my future autocreate plugin won't
work with your webmail, because it doesn't physically create the
mailboxes.