> On October 26, 2017 at 4:30 PM Federico Bartolucci <federico@aruba.it> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> it's the first time for me writing to the list, I'm trying to change the
> location into which the Dovecot's locks are done reserving a special
> temporary directory on an other partition, then adding to the
> dovecont.conf the line:
>
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:VOLATILEDIR=/tmp_lock/%2.256Nu/%u
>
> so that through the VOLATILEDIR directive the locks should be written in
> this path.
> We observe though that the locks for many users are still done in the
> real maildir (NFS mounted filesystem) as if in some situations this
> instruction is not effective. Anybody knows if are there other things to
> change or to do or what could be the reason? (for instance to login in a
> specific way or doing a particular operation).
>
> Regards,
> Federico

Hi, VOLATILEDIR currently only affects vsize.lock and autoexpunge.lock.

Aki