Hi Timo,
While reading through the dovecot documentation, I read
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 23:23, Maikel Verheijen wrote: that I could
do without indexes (well: use memory indexes),
Currently that's not really good idea, since message UIDs aren't then stored permanently. In CVS there's support for this with mbox format, and I've also been writing support for Courier-like uidlist-file, but that's still not really working. Well: I am working with Maildir mailstores, so I guess I need to have a uidlist kinda file then? Sorry it wasn't clear in my post that I am using Maildir style mailboxes... But I figured maildir was better than Mbox over nfs...
My problem is now that dovecot writes it's subscriptions to the mailstore. Since I want as little difference between my frondends as possible, (and as static as possible), I would love to see dovecot handle subscriptions in a database, or perhaps a nfs-safe file.
Database? SQL? Another problem is also .customflags file which isn't NFS-safe. With mbox it's not really required, but with Maildir it is if you want custom message flags. It wouldn't be too difficult to change the code to use dotlock files with these files anyway, I've been going to make it configurable. My current setup is with postgresql and Maildir. So in a way, a lot of info COULD come from my database, if it isn't safe enough via nfs.
Can you make all file locking configurable? Or will you do it on a "per-type" basis? (eg: mailbox locking, index locking, flag-file locking, etc).
regards,
Maikel Verheijen.