Of course, I meant "namespace private" (I'd just tried "public" in case it made any difference, but I think Dovecot doesn't really support shared folders yet).
Something like the following seems to work using the (undocumented?) CONTROL= option.
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix = "#snapshot/"
location = maildir:%h/Maildir/.snapshot/nightly.0:
INDEX=/var/indexes/%u:CONTROL=/var/indexes/%u
hidden = yes
}
dovecot-uidlist and temporary files seem to be created in the "CONTROL" directory.
Is it a good idea to use "CONTROL=" for NFS-mounted maildirs anyway (read-write ones as well) to store these files on the local filesystem?
Best Wishes, Chris
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:11:37 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Chris Wakelin c.d.wakelin@reading.ac.uk wrote:
Is it possible to have folders on read-only partitions in Dovecot 1.0-stable?
We have a NetApp fileserver which would probably be accessed via NFS (though iSCSI is possible) and which stores readonly "snapshots" of every directory accessible as .snapshot (but usually hidden from the operating system). It would be very nice to set up a "snapshot" namespace something like :-
namespace public { separator = / prefix = "#snapshot/" location = maildir:%h/Maildir/.snapshot/nightly.0 hidden = yes }
so that users could recover messages from say yesterday's version of their mailbox.
Unfortunately, Dovecot always seems to want to write to the directory, even when indexes are stored elsewhere (as recommended with NFS anyway, I think) using INDEX=whatever in the location line.
Best Wishes, Chris
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