[Dovecot] Fwd: NFS question

[Charles Marcus]

On 2010-09-30 7:38 AM, Cor Bosman wrote:
> Charles wrote:
>> Timo, can you at least clarify this - my understanding is that the
>> problem here is not inherent to dovecot, but to NFS caching, and that
>> dovecot is no more or less prone to having problems than any other
>> imap/pop3 server?

> That is correct. Except that many other imap/pop servers do not
> implement a message index to increase performance. The problem lies
> in the index, not in the messages themselves.

Right, I knew that, just wasn't clear...

> You can turn off the index completely, and then you'll be just as
> slow as any other imap server and wont ever see this problem.

But we're talking strictly POP3 here, so indexes aren't useful (and
therefor can be disabled completely if all you are using dovecot for is
as a POP3 server) anyway, right?

As for IMAP, I think Timo also made it clear that if you weren't using
the dovecot LDA+index updating, or if the indexes weren't stored on NFS,
then IMAP didn't suffer the problem/issue as well... ?

I'm just glad I don't have to use NFS, so I'm asking just for the sake
of knowing (and in case I ever do need to use NFS)... :)

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Best regards,

Charles