Hi Timo,

Thank you very much for replying with an instant solution!

Suggestion for future release: a setting in the configuration to enable/disable the automatic instance_update_now action and/or set the timeout by the user.

In the meanwhile I can use the recompiled version with this code change. Problem solved for me.

Regards,
Tijl

Timo Sirainen schreef op 2019-02-07 15:59:

On 2 Feb 2019, at 6.44, Tijl <dovecot@odie.be> wrote:

How can dovecot be run without writing to /var/lib/dovecot/instances everyday? Is there a configuration setting for this?

You'd need to patch src/master/main.c instance_update_now() to remove:

 

to_instance = timeout_add((3600 * 12 + i_rand_limit(60 * 30)) * 1000,

 instance_update_now, list);

 

I'm not quite sure why I wrote such code to update it continuously.