[Dovecot] mail_fsync=never doesn't work?

[Attila Nagy]

  On 09/28/2010 07:06 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.
I didn't know that, but see later...
>> 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.
>
I hope we can switch to an IMAP based webmail until Dovecot 2.1 is 
released. :)
And I would be more than happy to ditch maildir too for a distributed, 
replicated, highly available storage.