Hi all, I have some updates on the hard-link discussion.
First, let me explain that I installed a test machine with CentOS 7.1 and dovecot/pigeonhole version 2.2.10-4 and the results where identical on what I had on CentOS 6.7 and dovecot 2.0.9-19
The bottom line is that hardlinking works only when no, or at most only one, RCPT have sieve filtering. For example:
- if no RCPT has sieve filters, hardlink is OK
- if only one RCPT has sieve filters, hardlink is OK
- if two or more RCPTs have sieve filters, hardlink is NOT working.
Some time ago I reported that, when disabling the sieve_before and sieve_after options, hardlinks worked; however, this really was a side effect of what written above.
So, let me do a straigth question: is someone using dovecot/LMTP with hardlinking? To me, this seems a _very_ important feature, and I wonder if I am doing something wrong or if the feature (hardlink+sieve) simply does not exists.
Thanks.
On 27/11/2015 09:44, Gionatan Danti wrote:
centos 7.x is latest, so if you need help upgrade make a bug report to centos, not waste your time here since you choiced a precompiled problem, reporting here 7s helpfull if you use dovecot compiled with the latest version here, this migth be a unknown bug you then have found, but not if you use precompiled problems, then report to the maintainers of such software
Hi, does it means that when you use before_sieve and after_sieve in your dovecot configuration the hard-linking part works?
I don't need help to upgrade to CentOS 7.x, but before going this route I would understand if this is how dovecot/pigenhole are expected to work (don't use hardlinks) or if I misconfigured something.
RedHat / CentOS are a very common base OS, so I wonder if I am the only one hitting this problem or no. Thanks.
-- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti@assyoma.it - info@assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8