Hi,
I'm running Dovecot 1.2.17 for serving mail via IMAP as well as for providing access to a mailing list archive. The archive is implemented as a public read-only mailbox with per-user index files (i.e. the \Seen flags are per-user).
I recently enbled the Squat plugin to accelerate searches in the message bodies and noticed that every user (I'm using a virtual user setup) gets his own dovecot.index.search and dovecot.index.search.uids copies.
Is it possible to share those files among all users of the system? The squat plugin appears to store the search indices among the other index files (as explained on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Squat) no matter what; I considered storing a central copy of the index files somewhere and then creating symlinks for all users. It should be ok as far as file-permissions go since all mail is owned by a single vmail system user, but I wonder whether the indices are really the same (I noticed their md5 checksums differ) and whether there may be file locking issues in case two users search message bodies simultaneously.
Can anybody shed some light?
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