Case sensitivity and unicode normalisation on ZFS for Dovecot Maildir
Jørn Åne de Jong
dovecot.list at jornane.no
Wed Jul 6 11:51:22 UTC 2022
I'm wondering about some filesystem considerations when using Dovecot.
I've read https://wiki.dovecot.org/FileSystems, but that basically talks
about low-level details. My question is not about that.
I use the following mail_location:
maildir:~/maildir:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/maildir/INBOX:UTF-8
In this setup, because I use LAYOUT=fs and UTF-8, the IMAP names are
identical to the directory names. I noticed that the INBOX name is
case-insensitive, but all other names are case-sensitive. I wonder if
it's possible to have consistent behaviour here.
Now since I use ZFS, I have the ability to make the filesystem case
insensitive and to normalise unicode codepoints. Is that something that
would be useful when running a Dovecot server, or would that be a bad idea?
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